Comet Neowise

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Ms3r4ISU

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what time do you need to look at night to see it in Iowa?
From channel 13 (Des Moines) Twitter: From Des Moines, Comet Neowise will be located and visible tonight: 10:13 PM - 10:17 PM appears 0.3° above low NW horizon and tomorrow morning: 3:10 AM - 4:21 AM reaches 6.9° above low NE horizon.. that is if not cloudy!
 

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Anyone ever notice with meteors, comets etc..that they are always falling down or from top to bottom? Why is it we never ever see a meteor coming from below going North?

I mean we are this ball spinning in many directions in a 3D universe... Why have we never seen meteors shooting up from the horizon up?
 

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Anyone ever notice with meteors, comets etc..that they are always falling down or from top to bottom? Why is it we never ever see a meteor coming from below going North?

I mean we are this ball spinning in many directions in a 3D universe... Why have we never seen meteors shooting up from the horizon up?
It’s all science, man.
 

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I was wondering what the h3ll that was the other morning while walking the dog.
 

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Anyone ever notice with meteors, comets etc..that they are always falling down or from top to bottom? Why is it we never ever see a meteor coming from below going North?

I mean we are this ball spinning in many directions in a 3D universe... Why have we never seen meteors shooting up from the horizon up?

The projector that displays the comet doesn't allow these to move that direction.


:Jimlad
 

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Does anyone know if there's been any good video or pics that they've gotten from the Space Station?
 

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Went out again this morning. It was cloudy so you could only get a few glimpses of it. I figured I could at least get some photos of the sunrise while I was out. Haven't looked at them on the PC yet to see if any were worth while.
Judging by the photo in that tweet above I needed to be out much earlier. Not sure when it will be visible in the evenings at this point. Guess I should try to look that up.
 
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