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Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue University. She blogs at the intersection of women's studies and engineering, a pretty empty space but with potential to grow. She wants to be a feminist-but-tenured professor when she grows up.
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Category: environment
Posted on: August 12, 2008 9:06 AM, by Alice
Astrodyke reminds us that we're mid-Perseid meteor shower these days. I actually woke up at 3:30 am this morning (NOT on purpose) and thought about going to look, but I was too dog tired from the move out (move in is tomorrow).
Did you see anything?
Apparently we have another chance tonight! Yay! (Zzzzz....)
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I'd have loved to have watched the Perseids, but here in upstate NY we were on the tail end of yet another 2 inches of rain last night.
Posted by: chezjake | August 12, 2008 10:47 AM
I saw 8 meteors between 2:30 and 3:30 last night! I'm lucky to live in a city with light restrictions - we just climbed on the roof for a good view.
Posted by: sarcozona | August 12, 2008 1:21 PM
I was like you, woke up around 3am ( I had a computer run to check upon ), and spent about a minute looking up from the back porch. Only spent about a minute without seeing any, with was enough to convince me, that if we were having a particularly good shower (i.e. several times greater than usual I probably would have seen at least one). This is usually my test, I have seen the roughly one a minute sort of showers, but wouldn't want to miss a once every few seconds one.
Posted by: bigTom | August 12, 2008 3:28 PM
Nary a spark, but it was late and the sky was starting to get light in the east. I should have drunk a big glass of water before I went to bed. rats. rb
Posted by: arby | August 12, 2008 5:05 PM