Re-2: [meteorite-list] Stellar Eclipse in the Americas Now!

From: Dawn & Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jul 18 21:26:06 2005
Message-ID: <01d001c58bff$126a39c0$6502a8c0_at_GerryLaptop>

"but this occultation did't percipitate that" OH sure oh sure it didn't...
write the date and time and put it in a time capsule and bury it on the
moon, oophs wait that's about to explode, make it Mars, oophs that's already
polluted, well there's always Earth. Never think always.
Jerry
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Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: Re-2: [meteorite-list] Stellar Eclipse in the Americas Now!


> I wrote:
> >It will be visible in the lands south of the swarth SOUTH from Four
Corners
> >to Dallas to Atlanta and to Norfolk Virginia. If you live along that
line,
> you
> >will can see a grazing occultation which means the star will telegraph
to
> >you the specific mountains and valleys along Luna's surface as it skims
> >along - Fantastic trip from the backyard with the family!
>
> Hola Bernd, Jerry, and List, I also wrote that the graze line passed
through
> Four Corners, Dallas, Atlanta, and Norfolk, Virginia and the occultation
was
> SOUTH of that line in the original message, why the message Bernd? It
was a
> little short notice, just good for those who were in front of their
> computers. I can report mixed luck on my attempt at observation, and no
fireballs,
> even though Hurrucane Emily is angrily headed our way, skies were clear,
and
> at 10:58 PM I handed the binoculars to my guest, who promptly decided to
look
> at something else interesting for a moment, unknown to me." So I ask,
> "What do you see?" -"The stars are so beautiful..." "-Gimme that....
> ARRRRRRrrrrgghhh. Antares is gone." (answer "I didn't think it would
happen so
> quickly..." ).
>
> Jerry, not to fear, there is one more stellar occultation better than 4th
> magnitude, by the Moon this year. Mark your calender for local time 3:16
AM or
> so on 23 December 2005. It'll be a waning half-Moon to the Southeast for
> you. Unfortunately, at 3.6 magnitude, the star, Zavijah, the second
brightest
> one in the Constellation Virgo pales in comparision to Antares which is
11.4
> times brighter. But Zavijah has the honor of translating into English as
> "the smartest one" or "the barking one" and being a lot more similar to
the
> color of out Sun in size and jut a tad bit warmer. Too bad we just miss
the
> night occultation of Spica, the brightest Star in Virgo and on par with
Antares,
> two days later. That will be a great Xmas present, an occultation at
dawn of
> another first magnitude star, for people living from North Dakota to New
> Mexico and further west.
>
> PS Antares is 400-500 light years away (Divide that by 3.26 to get about
125
> Parsecs) in distance. When Bernd quotes Burnham's comment on size being
700
> times that of our Sun, he means to quote Burnham compares the size of the
> respective diameters. Thus Antares would reach the asteroid belt if it
were in
> the Sun's place...and a third of a billions Suns would fit within its
3600
> degree K gaseous photosphere. By the way, Antares is one of the biggest
> candidates to go supernova any moment...but this occultation didn't
precipitate
> that...
>
> Saludos, Doug.
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Received on Mon 18 Jul 2005 09:13:27 PM PDT