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give me a shout if you're in town tonight.

THIS JUST IN!!! Not only do we get the first Lunar Eclipse in Burning Man history, but now, 5 days later we get a meteor shower! Best time ever to be in the pitch black desert!!!!!!!!!!

STOKED (avec muey muey exclamations!!!!!!!)

by Chris Durden

The Perseid Meteor Shower is underway. However, it's only the coming attraction for a much bigger show a few weeks away.

The best time to see the Perseids will be this weekend and early next week. You can see them on a clear night in the northeast sky.

The two-week shower gets its name from the constellation Perseus, because the meteors appear to emanate from a point within Perseus. Watchers can see dozens of meteors per hour between midnight and dawn if you are away from city lights.

If you want a more in-depth experience, you can head out to the Lake Afton Observatory. You can watch the shower there Monday morning from two o'clock to five o'clock.

That's not all. NASA says another meteor shower could be on the horizon. The Aurigid Meteor Shower could take place on September 1st. So why the uncertainty? NASA says it all depends on how debris comes off the Comet Kiess.

The comet has only come close to earth twice in the past two-thousand years. "We have so little experience with ancient debris from long-period comets," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Almost anything could happen-from a fizzle to a beautiful meteor shower."

But if it does happen, not everyone will see it. Only those in the western United States, Canada and Hawaii will see the shower. But there's a chance, parts of Kansas will get at least a partial show as well.

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Updated August 28, 2007

Live Update From the Playa

At approximately 2:58 local time, 8/28/07, a fire ignited the Burning Man figure and the center Green Man Pavilion at the Burning Man event in Black Rock City, Nevada.

Black Rock City Emergency Services Department units responded from Stations Three, Five, and Nine and put the fire out within approximately 23 minutes. There were no reported injuries. The Man is still standing, and an assesment is underway to determine the structural integrity of The Man and the Green Man Pavillion. The event will continue as scheduled.

An arson investigation is currently under way, and is ongoing. There is no confirmed cause of ignition at this time.

No further information is available at this time. More information will be released tomorrow morning after the investigation can safely be concluded.

http://www.burningman.com/

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