Peter Ashby wrote:
Hi,

I have been told that a spectaluor meteor was seen over Central England
today.
I wonder if anyone has any more info.
Apologies for posting on this group, there must be a more specialised
group
but I'm not aware of one.

Regards,

Pete Coventry


I was reading the following last night about 10 o'clock, but decided not
to
go out and look for meteors since it was a cold, cloudy night and I
thought
that the odds of seeing anything were pretty low :-(
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...htm?list133033

Cheers, Alastair.





Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's revolving


at 900 mph, orbiting the sun @ 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun
that's all source of all our power......

;-) Pete

The sun and you and me and all the stars that you can see go round every
two hundred million years



Just remember that you're standing on a planet
That's evolving
And revolving
At nine thousand miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second,
so it's reckoned,
'Round the sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me,
and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm,
at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle
sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us
it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years
From Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.


Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go,
that's the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute
And that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember,
when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life
Somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

-- Eric Idle


Thanks for that, the Universe song is one of my favs, makes you feel
nice and small and that any problems you may have don't matter a hoot.