Do feel deprived because you have never seen a brilliant meteor entering the earths atmosphere? Here is what it looks like.

The trouble is you don't know when to look up to see it. Hang on - wait - The Green Man is having some sort of funny turn, his is going all queer (no not that sort of queer), is it a premonition perhaps. I am standing at Bend, Oregon on Wednesday, September 8th at 8:52:46 a.m and one is appearing as a white dot streaking across the blue morning sky. Now I am magically transported to the southwestern corner of Idaho and it's 8:53:35 a.m. The meteor is quite spectacular now.

The Green Man blinks, as if coming out of a trance. Ah, what a strange experience.

Odd that the premonition coincides exactly with the planned reentry of the Genesis spacecraft. Below is a map of the trajetory.

If you live within 100 miles of the red line then you are in for an excellent spectacle on the morning of the 8th of September.

The map is courtesy of NASA on whose web site you can find out more about the event click here.