I admit it, i am a geek, especially when it comes to meteor showers (no secrets there).
What do meteor showers have to do with time travel, you ask? There are annual meteor showers that occur over the same period of days every year, as the Earth passes through debris trails of old comets. The Leonid Meteor Shower (which peaks tomorrow morning, November 17) is the result of Earth encountering debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle, for example. This year, the Earth will be passing through three distinct fields from Tempel-Tuttle. The first trail we will experience is from the year 1001, and then from year 1333, and finally from 1733. I find that mind-boggling, the notion that we are seeing such beautiful golden and green and red and blue and white hot meteors that originated from a comet in 1001, that continue to exist out in space in our lifetimes. It is a small way of being back in time and witnessing part of the wonders of the heavens. When i stand on the hill behind us at 3am watching them shoot across the sky, i always feel a deepening connection to the universe and to those others over the ages who gazed heavenward just like me. We are not alone, not at all. love and peace, joyce PS - Info on meteor photography: http://www.imo.net/photo/index.html International Meteor Organization: http://www.imo.net/ PPS - The cyclamen on your blog is beautiful, Lob... And a coinkidink - they replaced the flowers in the lobby at work yesterday with black Chinese pots containing cyclamen with luscious delicate pink flowers. Spooky flower action at a distance. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/J8folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HolyGeek/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
