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Geminid meteor shower |
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By: Emlyn Morgan Date: December 14, 2025, 4:51 pm |
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The sky is clear tonight so I put on my warmest jellaba and went |
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up the stairs on to the roof. |
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Should I explain that roofs are flat around here? I remember a |
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story - Daoud the Beloved - set in Morocco I wrote many many |
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years ago on mmsa where I described caning activity on a roof. |
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A helpful reader suggested I should have made it clear that it |
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was a flat roof. It just hadn't occurred to me that many |
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readers might imagine the roof was sloping. |
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Anyway, as I was saying. They say you should wait thirty minutes |
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to get your night eyes and scan the sky near to Castor, or is it |
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Pollux. They're not far apart anyway. I would have been happy to |
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see just one or two meteors. But nothing, zilch, wallo. |
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Oh well, maybe tomorrow night. |
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Re: Geminid meteor shower |
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By: Zyngaru Date: December 15, 2025, 8:48 am |
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I hope you get to see it. |
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Remember that back in the day such things in the night sky were |
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considered omens. I always found it interesting how some |
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claimed the same event as a good omen and others a bad omen. I |
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guess if it were two armies going into battle, that event would |
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be seen as both a bad and good omen depending on if you won or |
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lost. |
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