[meteorite-list] OT, MI, NY, PA Fireball 6FEB2012

From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 23:11:05 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <8CEB365A59BF418-C60-39BD6_at_webmail-m160.sysops.aol.com>

Hi Linton; Sterling & the Venusians;

"Oops" - Not at all, it's great that you will have the opportunity to
see such an event twice in a lifetime! Most generations never have
that opportunity...

"a toddler of today could well be alive in 2117" (Sterling)
"which no living primate will likely recall when the next" (Doug)

Living? they'll need to see and recall, too ;-), well, maybe you're
right, Scandinavian toddlers are getting smarter and younger every day.

I wouldn't put it past a met-list member projecting the transit on the
inside of baby's Quaker Oats container, and then sending the tyke to
listen to to the secret Swedish methods of Mattias!

http://www.mattiasribbing.se/forelasningar.php !

Kindest wishes
Doug

Sterling - thanks for the clarification on the independence of the two
cycles ... I had assumed they were related, ah, which makes me prime
material for a Mayan sacrifice (Most Mayan sacrifices were determined
by the periodicity of Venus ...)


-----Original Message-----
From: Linton Rohr <lintonius at earthlink.net>
To: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>; Meteorite-list
<Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
Sent: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 9:19 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario, MI, NY, PA Fireball 6FEB2012


Oops! I failed to read all of the thread before jumping in there.
Apologies to Doug and thanks to you Sterling, for clarifying the
'series'
aspect.
Linton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Linton Rohr" <lintonius at earthlink.net>;
<Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "MexicoDoug" <mexicodoug at aim.com>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario, MI, NY, PA Fireball 6FEB2012


> Between the "pairs" of transits eight years apart,
> there is either 105.5 years or 121.5 years to the
> next pair (depending on the series). The nest
> transit after this one is on Dec. 11, 2117. Given
> our increasing longevity, a toddler of today could
> well be alive in 2117.
> http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/transit/catalog/VenusCatalog.html
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linton Rohr" <lintonius at earthlink.net>
> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "MexicoDoug"
> <mexicodoug at aim.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 7:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario, MI, NY, PA Fireball 6FEB2012
>
>
>> "...the transit of Venus on this upcoming June 6, the  likes of 
which no
>> living primate will likely recall when the next  opportunity shadows
>> earth, nor who can recall the last one!"
>>
>> Doug,
>> While you're most certainly correct that none amongst us will see 
the
>> next one (in 2117), I'm actually old enough to remember the transit 
of
>> Venus in 2004. ;^) They come in pairs 8 years apart, separated by 
105
>> years. I hope we're all still here in June, to observe this one. One
>> never knows...
>> Best wishes to all,
>> Linton
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "MexicoDoug" <mexicodoug at aim.com>
>> To: <edeckert at triad.rr.com>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 1:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ontario, MI, NY, PA Fireball 6FEB2012
>>
>>
>>> "Maybe the Mayans were right, and 2012 will see us go out in a 
blaze of
>>> meteorite impacts!"
>>>
>>> Hi Ed, List;
>>>
>>> Poor Mayans, haven't they suffered enough at the hands of multiple
>>> opressors to now be attributed this kooky modern rage.  As the most
>>> scientifically advanced society in the world of that age, countless
>>> unnamed brilliant Mayan scientists and astronomers that 2012 is 
most
>>> sacred because of the transit of Venus on this upcoming June 6, the
>>> likes of which no living primate will likely recall when the next
>>> opportunity shadows earth, nor who can recall the last one!.
>>>
>>> They don't make calendars like they used to... Last year my free 
bank
>>> calendar ended in December 2011, but my insurance agent's company 
was so
>>> kind to save the world by giving me a complimentary 2012 calendar 
to
>>> read, buying more time before the whole thing goes *poop* the same 
way
>>> it apparently began ;-)
>>>
>>> Kindest wishes
>>> Doug
>>
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