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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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profdant139
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Dec 15, 2014
Gee, Salvo, is that possible? RDWIII was on the Bradshaw Trail, which (I think) is almost 400 miles from Vandenberg.

I have seen a meteor that looked a lot like a rocket -- except that it was descending, not ascending! This was on Nov. 22 of this year at around 7:20 pm, coincidentally. Many other folks on the West Coast saw it and reported it.

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