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phyzzio
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Meteor illuminates the Utah sky

A meteor briefly illuminated parts of the sky in Utah to daylight-level on Wednesday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8367760.stm

19-11-2009 05:30 PM

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.......Wow!

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19-11-2009 05:41 PM

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You can imagine what a caveman would have thought of this - the end of the world?

19-11-2009 05:54 PM

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loved to have seen that
you mentioning the caveman look out for afilm called Man from Earth,

19-11-2009 08:37 PM

Dave Perry
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I would have thought cavemen and women would have been far more used to seeing this kind of natural event than any modern man or woman. They will have watched thousands and thousands of shooting stars over their lives- some little, some larger. They lived before pollution remember. And on an evening they didn't sit inside watching the box or on playing on the internet.

All the tribal folk I've come across have a far better knowledge of the night stars and sky than the folk I know, being able to name hundreds of stars, constellations , star groups and reel off story after story about how they got their names and so on. And they know which ones are the planets too because of their different rotations and so on!.

However, it was a splendid shooting star.

http://www.davidwperry.blogspot.com

19-11-2009 08:39 PM

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