shooting stars
i was outside monday night and in 3 minutes i saw 2 shooting stars. it hurts my brain to try to figure out when the shooting star actually burnt up.The nearest star is some 4.2 light years away, and that distance was known to within an accuracy of better than 0.1 light year.
The light year is not a unit of time; it is the distance light travels in a year, or about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km).
anyhow, it was cool to see. it's been a long time. it reminded me of seeing Haley's Comet when I was in junior high, which comes along every 76 years. hopefully i'll get to see that again in 2062. I'll be 88; a great vintage if you ask me.
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A shooting star isn't a star at all. It's a meteor burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
nothing gets by you. i'll try harder next time i try to misinform. but since i wrote it on the interweb it must be true.
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