For those of you into shooting the sky, I recently heard that Sirius
reaches its highest position in the night sky on December 31 at 12:00 pm
local time. Apparently this had never been noted before.
Also:
NASA Space Science News for Dec. 28, 1999
Y2K Meteor Blast: One of the most intense and least observed annual
meteor
showers peaks on the morning of Jan. 4, 2000. The Quadrantids will be
the first
major meteor display of the New Year. FULL STORY at
http://www.spacescience.com/newhome/headlines/ast28dec99_1.htm
<a
href="http://www.spacescience.com/newhome/headlines/ast28dec99_1.htm";>link
for AOL users</a>
NEWS NOTE: For information about the recently-completed Hubble repair
mission,
visit http://hubble.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and/or http://www.nasa.gov.
Gregg
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