On 3 Jan, 15:40, "Hal Rosser" wrote:
"Howard W3CQH" wrote in message

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Space Weather News for Jan. 3, 2008
http://spaceweather.com

METEOR SHOWER: Earth is about to pass through a stream of dusty debris
from
near-Earth asteroid 2003 EH1, producing the annual Quadrantid meteor
shower.
Forecasters expect a brief but intense peak of 50+ meteors per hour over
Earth's northern hemisphere sometime between 0200 UTC and 0700 UTC on
Friday

I tried to watch one of those meteor-showers a couple of years ago, but got
a crick in my neck, then someone told me it may be easier if I would lay on
my back in the bed of my pickup truck - so I tried that - to no avail. My
wife said try it again without the camper-top - but what does she know about
meteors?

I was born in London before the war. You can hardly make out the stars
because of the multitude of lights. This is the reasom of course that
the Greenwich observatory was abandoned. Had some visitors from London
a few years back and they spent all evening looking up at the clear
skies of illinois. Today it is much to cold for an old man to venture
out.
Regards
Art