http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Bundle up and get ready to watch a fiery lightshow stirred up by dead comets in Earth's upper atmosphere during the cold of winter in the dead of night. The annual Geminid meteor shower is expected to peak mid-December. Considered one of the more reliable showers by those in the meteor-watching business, the Geminids almost always put on a great show. http://www.physorg.com/news179655142.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:02 EST news179655142 Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends. The best meteor shower of 2009 is about to fall over North America on a long, cold December night. http://www.physorg.com/news179519603.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:50:01 EST news179519603 (PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower, which will reach its maximum on the night of Dec. 13-14, usually offers the best show of the year, outperforming even the Perseid shower of August. This year the Geminids will peak three days after new moon, so viewing conditions should be favorable. In a clear sky, observers may see more than 100 meteors per hour. http://www.physorg.com/news179085646.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:00:01 EST news179085646 (PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak at 0510 GMT on 14th December. Meteors (or ‘shooting stars`) are the result of small particles entering the Earth`s atmosphere at high speed, heating up and then disintegrating. http://www.physorg.com/news179084678.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:30:02 EST news179084678 (AP) -- Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch a glimpse of what was advertised as an intense Leonid meteor shower, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many because of cloudy conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news177754664.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:18:19 EST news177754664 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the hours before dawn on Nov. 17. http://www.physorg.com/news177261848.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:30:02 EST news177261848 This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors over North America followed by a more intense outburst over Asia. The phase of the Moon will be new, setting the stage for what could be one of the best Leonid showers in years. http://www.physorg.com/news177093817.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:46:47 EST news177093817 (PhysOrg.com) -- Pumpkin-colored Mars will return to prominence during November, rising shortly before midnight at the beginning of the month and more than two hours earlier by month's end. The orange planet will brighten noticeably as it passes the stars of the Beehive cluster. Mars will be highest in the south around the start of morning twilight, the best time for viewing it with a telescope. http://www.physorg.com/news176408672.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:40:01 EST news176408672 Earth is currently passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, lighting up the night sky with the "fireworks" of the annual Orionids meteor shower. http://www.physorg.com/news175364339.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:19:37 EST news175364339 (PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Orionid meteor shower will peak in the hours before dawn on Oct. 21, according to the editors of StarDate magazine, who said the shower could produce up to 20 meteors per hour. http://www.physorg.com/news175187487.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:13:44 EST news175187487 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stargazers are in for a unique treat tonight: the planet Earth will pass through the debris train of the Swift-Tuttle comet this evening which astronomers call the Perseid meteor shower. http://www.physorg.com/news169398787.html Space & Earth Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:14:20 EST news169398787 Amateur astronomers across the UK are preparing to tweet the world`s first mass participation meteor star party, as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). Led by Newbury Astronomical Society, the Twitter Meteorwatch will take place from the evening of Tuesday 11th until the morning of 13th August 2009, covering the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. http://www.physorg.com/news169136268.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:50:03 EST news169136268 Splat! There goes another bug on the windshield. Anyone who's ever driven down a country lane has seen it happen. A fast moving car, a cloud of multiplying insects, and a big disgusting mess. http://www.physorg.com/news169135664.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:40:01 EST news169135664 (PhysOrg.com) -- It's time once again for nature to put on its late-summer fireworks show: the Perseid meteor shower. This year's best viewing will be before dawn on Aug. 12, with a second chance after sunset that night, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. http://www.physorg.com/news168874856.html Space & Earth Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:02 EST news168874856 Earth is entering a stream of dusty debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, the source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Although the shower won't peak until August 11th and 12th, the show is already getting underway. http://www.physorg.com/news168262765.html Space & Earth Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:41:46 EST news168262765 Picture this: It's 4:30 in the morning. You're up and out before the sun. Steam rises from your coffee cup, floating up to the sky where a silent meteor streaks through a crowd of stars. A few minutes later it happens again, and again. A meteor shower is underway. http://www.physorg.com/news159196635.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:17:50 EST news159196635 The annual Geminid meteor shower, which will reach its maximum on the night of Dec. 13-14, usually offers the best show of the year, outperforming even the Perseid shower of August. http://www.physorg.com/news147364267.html Space & Earth Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:31:07 EST news147364267 The annual Perseid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky throughout Colorado and will peak during the early morning hours of Aug. 12, according to an astronomy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder. http://www.physorg.com/news137341171.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:19:31 EST news137341171