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The New Testament 319
The fifteenth book of Planetology, called
Meteors
And there fell a great star from Heaven,
burning as if it were a lamp.
Chapter I: Origin
Now Earth shall have other visitors
from the solar system and beyond.
And it shall come to pass that
a pebble of debris in outer space shall pass the orbit of the Earth
and pierce its atmosphere. And friction with Earth's air shall make
it grow quite hot and glow. And it shall streak across the dark
night sky as a streak of light. And this shall
be a meteor. It shall be like unto a shooting star.
Chapter II: Showers
And rocks and bits of objects
shall from the heavens fall.
Now during the year at certain times, Earth
shall pass through a region filled with outer-space debris. And if
ye be looking, ye shall see dozens of meteors each
hour. A meteor shower shall be the name for this
display of Nature's fireworks. Prominent showers shall have
names. And for example, each year on January third shall the Quadrantid
shower "rain." On April twenty-two shall come the
Lyrid shower. And the Perseids shall transpire in a two-week interval
peaking
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on the twelfth of August.302 And the
Orionid shower shall last a
few days and peak on October twenty-one. On November seventeen
shall the Leonid display its streaks of light. The Geminid shower shall
last for a few days but on the fourteenth of December shall it show its
real power. Now the debris of showers often shall have come
from comets. And for example, the Orionids shall be associated
with the comet Halley. An exception is the Geminid shower: its
debris shall have originated from the asteroid called Phaethon.
Chapter III: Meteorites
Less commonly, a meteor shall
streak across the sky, burn and generate a glowing disk of red
as large or larger than a quarter Moon. And this shall
be a fire ball.
Now the energy released within the
atmosphere by a one-gram meteor shall be equivalent to one-hundred
grams of TNT. Such small meteors shall be pulverized and
burn up in the atmosphere. And since most are small, almost all
shall vanish in Earth's atmosphere. But those that do survive
and land on Earth shall be called meteorites. And
quite infrequently, Earth shall encounter one that is
relatively large. Such a large meteorite shall create a
crater. Now once or twice every hundred-million years, a
meteor ten-kilometers or bigger shall strike Earth, creating a
blast equivalent to one-hundred-million megatons of TNT or
more. And great ecological damage shall ensue; and Earth shall have
a holocaust.
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302 The first three weeks of August
are the best time to view meteors.
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