Leonid meteor shower peaks Tuesday, Nov. 17 (w/ Video)

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Nov 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the hours before dawn on Nov. 17.

The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

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Nov 10, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

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 ...

STAR TRAK for November: Mars is prominent again

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Nov 02, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

(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 ...

Icebreaker: Scientist brings out big gun to explore behavior of ice in planetary collisions

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Oct 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard's Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers ...

Orionids Meteor Shower Lights Up the Sky

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Oct 21, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

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.

Orionid meteor shower peaks Wednesday

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Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(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.

Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented

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Oct 16, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (10) | 2

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 ...

Astronomers capture spectacular meteor footage and images (w/ Video)

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Oct 07, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (12) | 0

(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 ...

Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

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Sep 24, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (16) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...

Space Hand-Me-Downs

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Sep 18, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (6) | 1

Molecules vital to life have been detected in outer space and isolated in meteorites and comets. Some of this material that rained down on Earth may have jump-started biology. If so, these space seeds also ...

Professor says current meteor shower proves theory of calendar's origin

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Aug 13, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (9) | 3

(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. ...

Tweeting Shooting Stars

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Aug 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

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 ...

The Perseids are Coming

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Aug 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

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.

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tuesday, Aug. 12

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Aug 07, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 3

(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 ...

NASA Goes Inside a Volcano, Monitors Activity

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Aug 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have placed high-tech "spiders" inside and around the mouth of Mount St. Helens, one of the most active volcanoes in the United States. Networks such as these could one day be used ...