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A year ago, it was a surprise to me to see the meteor shower but now I know whats going on and was reminded recently.

The Perseid meteor shower will have to fight it out with a bright moon for visibility this year, but astronomers are still predicting a dazzling show tonight.

From any vantage point in the world, you might see more than 80 meteors an hour streak across the sky during the best viewing time, when the moon’s glare will be weakest—late tonight and into the wee hours of tomorrow, local cloud and lighting conditions permitting.

The highest concentration of Perseid meteors hitting Earth’s atmosphere will occur tomorrow afternoon, when they’ll be largely invisible.

The Perseid sky show is “always the best annual meteor shower,” said Bill Cooke, the lead for NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office in Alabama.

“Visually, the best are the Geminids. But December nights are cold, and people don’t want to freeze their rears off.”

Perseid Meteor Shower Viewing Tips

The moon will provide some interference for the Perseids, at just over half full and rising around midnight. The best advice: Look away from the moon—and all other lights—so your eyes stay as dark-adapted as possible.

To see the Perseid meteor shower, bring a blanket to a place away from city lights and lay on your back, taking in as much of the sky as possible.

The Perseid meteors will appear to originate in the northeastern sky, near the constellation Perseus, and to shoot off in all directions, said Brian Skiff, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff (see animated star chart below).

Meteor Shower Tonight to Yield 80 Meteors an Hour?.

Treyarch’s deployed some new screenshots for the third Call of Duty: World at War map pack set to keep trigger fingers occupied till Modern Warfare 2 comes out.

Map Pack 3 includes three new multiplayer levels called Battery, Revolution and Breach along with yet another zombie level – Der Riese.

It’ll be available to download for Xbox 360 and PS3 owners this August, just three months before Modern Warfare 2 infiltrates consoles this November.

Article via: http://videogamesrepublic.com/?p=7588

I was really excited to find out there is yet another Halloween movie coming out soon!  Was pretty cool when the last one came out and this one looks just as good.  Its supposed to come out 28 August 2009, but I know that it won’t show in the awesome town that I live in.

Michael Myers is still at large and no less dangerous than ever. After a failed reunion to reach his baby sister at their old home, Laurie Strode is immediately taken to a hospital to be treated by the wounds that had been afflicted by her brother a few hours ago. However, Michael isn’t too far off and will continue his murdering ‘Halloween’ rampage until he gets his sister all to himself.

Synopsis:

“ Picking up right where the first film left off, Laurie is taken to the hospital after supposedly killing the man who was responsible for the deaths of several people in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. However, her stay at Haddonfield General becomes very brief when a very much alive Michael appears once more, brutally murdering everyone in the hospital to find his sister. Michael disappears, and Laurie survives the infamous Halloween massacre, but is still haunted by it years later. Laurie struggles to come to terms with her dark past, or at least forget it. But the supposedly dead Michael Myers has other plans, and as the anniversary of his massacre approaches, he returns to Haddonfield once more, with a family reunion planned that Laurie will never forget. “

More information on Halloween 2: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1311067/