Space Storm
Space storm alert as comet cometh
smh.com.au
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Space shuttle flights have been cancelled and astronauts in the International Space Station are battening down the hatches this week in anticipation of the most violent meteor storm in decades.
The greatest risk is to expensive communications equipment which is among the 600 active satellites orbiting the Earth. NASA, the American space agency, has already taken steps to protect the giant Hubble Space Telescope, which is in the path of thousands of meteors hurtling through space at about 250,000 km/h.
The cosmic firework display will begin mid-week as the Earth cuts across the orbit of Comet Temple-Tuttle and into the blizzard of meteors it trails in its wake. It should peak by next weekend.
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2001.11.12 (Mon) • 11:39
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