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coondoggie writes “On Thursday, SETI Institute and NASA scientists will take their research instruments and their coffee for a 10 hour continual flight to map what they say will be the earth’s most brilliant meteor shower of 2008. Scientists believe the Quadrantid meteor shower could flash by

100 visible meteors per hour at its peak, depending on location. A Gulfstream V aircraft will take off from San Jose, Calif., and fly 14 scientists

and their instruments for 10 continual hours at 47,000ft., by the Arctic and back to San Jose. The primary goal of the lengthy airborne mission is to observe the Quadrantid meteor shower in ideal and virtually unchanging conditions far […]

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