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I know this is an annual event (my husband just tonight alerted me to it's impending appearance)--the Leonid meteor shower--but I am still reeling from the video we saw last night, a 3-hour production made from the TV mini-series, "Impact."
It is a science-fiction story about a meteor shower during which a brown dwarf
crashes into the moon and jars it out of it's orbit, putting it on a
collision course with Earth. The brown dwarf embedded in the moon also
has a mass twice the mass of Earth and a strong magnetic and
gravitational pull, and wreaks havoc on Earth with intermittent EMP
events and gravitational anomalies. I have no idea whether or not this
is scientifically possible, but I have to admit, the premise gave me
pause.
Now, with the Leonid Meteor Shower about to present on or
about November 17th, I am thinking, we are so vulnerable here on our
little lonely planet, out there by itself in vast space. . .
Ok,
enough of that. What we'll do is just break out the ol' telescope (yes,
we have one), and prepare to watch it. Hope it's beautiful; and nothing
more.
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