<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9757fa7e-db6e-4b8d-8d71-9c5b3a9f2195/B5F9C944-FE95-4FE5-8427-3EA80202C480/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090501.html" href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090501.html" style="font-size: 11px;">apod.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090501.html"><CENTER><P>2009 May 1 <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0905/MeteorMilkyway_rowell.jpg"> <IMG alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0905/MeteorMilkyway_rowell_c600.jpg" /></A> </P></CENTER> <CENTER> <B> Lyrid Meteor and Milky Way </B> </CENTER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090501.html"><B>Explanation: </B> On April 22nd, the Lyrid Meteor Shower visited planet Earth's sky, <A href="http://meteorshowersonline.com/lyrids.html">an annual shower</A> produced as the Earth plows through dust from the tail of <A href="http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=3320">comet Thatcher</A>. Usually Lyrid meteor watchers see only a drizzle. Just a few meteors per hour stream away from the shower's <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050806.html">radiant point</A> near bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra. But photographer Tony Rowell still managed to catch one bright Lyrid meteor. Recorded in early <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090424.html">morning hours</A>, his well-composed image looks <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070711.html">toward the south</A> from White Mountains of eastern California, USA. During the time exposure, he briefly illuminated an old mining cabin in the region's Ancient <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Great_Basin_Bristlecone_Pine">Bristlecone Pine</A> Forest in the foreground. The rich starfields and dust clouds of our own <A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080104.html">Milky Way galaxy</A> stretch across the background, along the <A href="http://leonids.arc.nasa.gov/meteor.html">meteor's glowing trail</A>. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B5F9C944-FE95-4FE5-8427-3EA80202C480/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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