Leonid Meteor Shower: Impact?
I know this is an annual event (my husband just tonight alerted me to it's impending appearance)--the Leonid meteor shower --but I am still reeling from the video we saw last night, a 3-hour production made from the TV mini-series, "Impact." It is a science-fiction story about a meteor shower during which a brown dwarf crashes into the moon and jars it out of it's orbit, putting it on a collision course with Earth. The brown dwarf embedded in the moon also has a mass twice the mass of Earth and a strong magnetic and gravitational pull, and wreaks havoc on Earth with intermittent EMP events and gravitational anomalies. I have no idea whether or not this is scientifically possible, but I have to admit, the premise gave me pause. Now, with the Leonid Meteor Shower about to present on or about November 17th, I am thinking, we are so vulnerable here on our little lonely planet, out there by itself in vast space. . . Ok, enough of that. What we'll do is just break o...