Re: OT: MOON ON 12/22 attn:Lynn
From: Gerry Snyder <gcsnyd@loop.com>
John I Jones wrote:
>
> ....
>
> One of the most memorable sights I ever had was one night when I was
> flying a Navy P3 Orion over the North Pacific out of Adak Alaska. We
> "flew through" a meteor shower. They were coming down all around us, and
> I could see their trails above and below us.
"Below" as used here means "below a horizontal plane going through the
airplane" rather than "inside a sphere concentric with the Earth passing
through the airplane." The bright glow of the meteor occurs at an
altitude of something like 40-70 miles; so their altitude was much
greater than yours, even if they were below your apparent horizon.
BTW, was this the meteor storm of '66?
> It was incredible.
I am envious.
>
> It was only later that I fully considered that one might have hit my
> wingtanks and I would not be here to enjoy my irises...
But you'd be famous! ;-)
As I remember, there was a dog killed my a meteorite, and a person
injured, but no known human fatalities.
Gerry
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g*@loop.com
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair
Region 15 Ass't RVP, JT Chair
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles
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