Re-2: [meteorite-list] Stellar Eclipse in the Americas Now!

[Dawn & Gerald Flaherty]

"but this occultation did't percipitate that" OH sure oh sure it didn't...
write the date and time and put it in a time capsule and bury it on the
moon, oophs wait that's about to explode, make it Mars, oophs that's already
polluted, well there's always Earth. Never think always.
Jerry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MexicoDoug at aol.com>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: Re-2: [meteorite-list] Stellar Eclipse in the Americas Now!


> I wrote:
> >It will be visible in the lands south of the swarth SOUTH from Four
Corners
> >to Dallas to Atlanta and to Norfolk Virginia.  If you live along  that
line,
> you
> >will can see a grazing occultation which means the star will telegraph
to
> >you the specific mountains and valleys along Luna's surface as it skims
> >along - Fantastic trip from the backyard with the family!
>
> Hola  Bernd, Jerry, and List, I also wrote that the graze line passed
through
> Four  Corners, Dallas, Atlanta, and Norfolk, Virginia and the occultation
was
> SOUTH of  that line in the original message, why the message Bernd?  It
was a
> little  short notice, just good for those who were in front of their
> computers.  I  can report mixed luck on my attempt at observation, and no
fireballs,
> even  though Hurrucane Emily is angrily headed our way, skies were clear,
and
> at 10:58  PM I handed the binoculars to my guest, who promptly decided to
look
> at  something else interesting for a moment, unknown to me."   So I ask,
> "What do you see?" -"The stars are so beautiful..."   "-Gimme  that....
> ARRRRRRrrrrgghhh.  Antares is gone."  (answer "I didn't  think it would
happen so
> quickly..." ).
>
> Jerry, not to fear, there is one more stellar occultation better than 4th
> magnitude, by the Moon this year.  Mark your calender for local time 3:16
AM or
> so on 23 December 2005.  It'll be a waning half-Moon to the Southeast  for
> you.  Unfortunately, at 3.6 magnitude, the star, Zavijah, the second
brightest
> one in the Constellation Virgo pales in comparision  to Antares which is
11.4
> times brighter.  But Zavijah has  the honor of translating into English as
> "the smartest one" or "the  barking one" and being a lot more similar to
the
> color of out Sun in size and  jut a tad bit warmer.  Too bad we just miss
the
> night occultation of Spica,  the brightest Star in Virgo and on par with
Antares,
> two days later.  That  will be a great Xmas present, an occultation at
dawn of
> another first magnitude  star, for people living from North Dakota to New
> Mexico and further west.
>
> PS Antares is 400-500 light years away (Divide that by 3.26 to get about
125
> Parsecs) in distance.  When Bernd quotes Burnham's comment on size  being
700
> times that of our Sun, he means to quote Burnham compares the size of  the
> respective diameters.  Thus Antares would reach the asteroid belt  if it
were in
> the Sun's place...and a third of a billions Suns would  fit within its
3600
> degree K gaseous photosphere.  By the way, Antares  is one of the biggest
> candidates to go supernova any moment...but this  occultation didn't
precipitate
> that...
>
> Saludos, Doug.
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