Fellow old-timers, remeber this classic? http://cgi.ebay.com/Criterion-Dynamax-8001-8-Schmidt-Cassegrain-EXCELLENT-/1... The SCT that never quite caught-on. The cardboard tube and Criterion's infamous failure to deliver probably had a lot to do with it. I once ordered a heavy-duty equatorial mount from them. After a nine-month wait, I cancelled the order, and called Tom Cave. The Astrola was delivered in three weeks.
In the morning after the large meteor explosion recently, there were smoke rings in the sky. Later, it seems to me, it was reported that these were from a jet contrail and not from the explosion. Last night I watched a national Geographic episode about tracking an asteroid in 2008 and predicting that it would strike the earth in the Nubian Desert. On that show, they showed photographs of the sky after that asteroid exploded and it looked identical to the formations after our local meteor explosion. Opinions?
As I recall, the cause of the odd cloud formations were never determined with finality, so the meteoric origin seems perfectly plausible, still. The Nat'l Geographic episode adds evidence to that theory, IMO. Unless, of course, jets were flying over the impact zone immediately afterwards. ;o) The ones here sure looked beautiful, whatever their origin. On 5/18/10, darinc@comcast.net <darinc@comcast.net> wrote:
In the morning after the large meteor explosion recently, there were smoke rings in the sky. Later, it seems to me, it was reported that these were from a jet contrail and not from the explosion. Last night I watched a national Geographic episode about tracking an asteroid in 2008 and predicting that it would strike the earth in the Nubian Desert. On that show, they showed photographs of the sky after that asteroid exploded and it looked identical to the formations after our local meteor explosion. Opinions? _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
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