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profdant139
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Dec 11, 2014

Geminid meteors Fri and Sat -- head for the boonies!

It looks like it will be cloudy and rainy in California, so I am out of luck -- but the predictions for this meteor shower look very good, so it's time for some cold weather boondocking! The experts ...
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Salvo
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Dec 14, 2014
That must have been around 7:20. You saw the Atlas rocket, launched from Vandenburg. It looked like a huge comet from Santa Barbara. Very spectacular.

RWDIII wrote:
Anyway right after dark saw the biggest meteor I have ever seen.
one of the guys around the fire said look,its a comet.It didn't have a tail,but
it looked like flames or
gas was coming out in front of it.It looked like a ball inside a v.

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