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 (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 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 When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it. Making note of the 'unusual' rocks he later found on the car's hood, Garchinski chalked the incident up to vandalism and filed a police report. http://www.physorg.com/news174925756.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:30:09 EST news174925756 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada have released footage of a meteor that was approximately 100 times brighter than a full moon. The meteor lit up the skies of southern Ontario two weeks ago and Western astronomers are now hoping to enlist the help of local residents in recovering one or more possible meteorites that may have crashed in the area of Grimsby, Ontario. http://www.physorg.com/news174133342.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:22:47 EST news174133342 (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 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 Astronomers from Caltech and NASA say a strong shower of Leonid meteors is coming in 2009. Their prediction follows an outburst on Nov. 17, 2008, that broke several years of "Leonid quiet" and heralds even more intense activity next November. http://www.physorg.com/news147705608.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:20:08 EST news147705608 (PhysOrg.com) -- Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in the sky, will steadily approach each other during November as if drawn by their mutual brillliance. Finally they will have a spectacular encounter low in the southwest at month's end, against the background of the constellation Sagittarius the Archer. http://www.physorg.com/news144952579.html Space & Earth Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:36:19 EST news144952579 One, the old-fashioned way: Find a dark place with starry skies and count the meteors streaking overhead. Two, the new way: Find a dark place with starry skies and then completely ignore the meteors. Instead, watch the Moon. That's where the explosions are. http://www.physorg.com/news139667447.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:30:47 EST news139667447 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 (PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak before dawn on Aug. 12. This year the Perseids will be competing with the nearly full moon at first, but after the moon sets there will be many bright streaks in the sky. http://www.physorg.com/news136818826.html Space & Earth Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:13:46 EST news136818826 Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show. http://www.physorg.com/news135958237.html Space & Earth Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:10:37 EST news135958237