The Internet links us all to a vast array of information-sometimes more than we expect, and to sources we didnt know even existed. When searching for online dictionary I pulled up a variety of ordinary dictionaries, and such sites as etymology dictionary (www.etymonline.com). Adding desert to my search query pulled up sites as diverse as:
Dream Dictionary (http://www.soulfuture.com/dream_dictionary/dream_dictionary_main.asp)
and The Astrodigital Online Dictionary of Meteoritics (http://www.astrodigital.org/astronomy/metdict.html)
Like a lot of people I sometimes get diverted from what Im doing by this kind of interesting link appearing in front of me, of which is entirely irrelevant to what Im doing. In this case, I looked up a definition of the word desert which I subsequently found, but in the end didnt end up using. My search had nothing to do with meteors called fireballs which are much brighter than normal meteors because they are roughly the size of peas, some even the size of a grain of sand. I love discovering this kind of trivia. Thankfully, using the Internet makes researching much faster so I can spare a few minutes to connect with interesting web...