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Tonight\u2019s the night!<\/strong>\u00a0 If you live in a part of the United States with a forecast of clear skies, tonight is probably your best opportunity to catch the 2012 Leonid Meteor Shower in its resplendent glory. \u00a0Turn out the lights, get away from the city to an area without a lot of streetlamps, and look up!<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ The Leonids<\/strong>\u2014so named because the meteors originate in the east, near the constellation Leo\u2014return each year in mid-November.\u00a0 As Earth slips through the garbage dump of the deceased comet Tempel-Tuttle, gas and dust flare up in the atmosphere, creating what is sometimes a spectacular firestorm.\u00a0 Dress warmly (and rise early), and head out between moonset and about 5:15 a.m., before the first rays of dawn, and you should expect to see between 15 and 20 meteors per hour. \u00a0The peak is expected at about 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not superstitious\u2014I\u2019m sure you\u2019re not!\u2014but the powerful 1833 meteor storm frightened the people of Independence, Missouri, who believed it to be a sign to push the growing Mormon community<\/a> out of the area.\u00a0 The depiction of the 1883 storm I\u2019ve included here was created just three years after the storm for the Seventh Day Adventists\u2019 book Bible Readings for the Home Circle<\/span>. The sky filled with \u201cfalling stars\u201d is not an artist\u2019s reinterpretation\u2014that year, it\u2019s thought that between 100,000 and 200,000 meteors<\/span> fell each hour across the Eastern United States.<\/p>\n

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$\"\"$ NASA Astronaut Dr. Thomas D. Jones<\/strong>, a Catholic who flew four missions on the space shuttle, tells a dramatic story about experiencing God in space\u2014in the Eucharist, and in Creation.\u00a0 He was aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on a Sunday morning; one of his fellow crew was a Eucharistic minister who had brought consecrated hosts aboard in a pyx; and they shared a brief communion service on the flight deck.\u00a0 Tom wrote of his experience, \u201cOur silent reflection was interrupted by a sudden burst of dazzling white light. The sun had risen (as it did 16 times each day) just as we finished Communion, and now its pure radiance streamed through Endeavour<\/em>\u2019s cockpit windows and bathed us in its warmth. To me, this was a beautiful sign, God\u2019s gentle touch confirming our union with Him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom continued, \u201cWe are designed to be awed in space.\u00a0 If our imperfect species has found such glimmers of delight in our first tentative encounter with the cosmos, then we have truly found a most caring and generous God.\u201d<\/p>\n

See the rest of astronaut Tom Jones\u2019 dramatic story in the St. Anthony Messenger (June 2004).\u00a0 http:\/\/www.americancatholic.org\/messenger\/jun2004\/feature1.asp<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"