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Meteor shower is possible next week
May 17, 2006 |
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Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 will be visible this week and next through telescopes or on the Internet and might produce a meteor shower Monday night.
STAR TRAK for November
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 03, 2008 |
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(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 ...
The 2006 Geminid Meteor Shower
Dec 13, 2006 |
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The best meteor shower of the year peaks this week on Dec. 13th and 14th.
Saturn dominates the night sky in January
Jan 04, 2007 |
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The highlight of January will be the planet Saturn, which will rise in the east around 8 p.m. local time at the start of the month and two hours earlier by month's end. The planet with the famous rings will ...
Perseid Earthgrazers
Aug 08, 2006 |
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Blame it on the Moon: The 2006 Perseid meteor shower is going to be a dud. Oh, Earth will pass through the Perseid meteoroid stream, as usual. And meteors will flit across the sky. But when the shower peaks ...
December: Ursid meteor shower out-performs the Geminids
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 01, 2008 |
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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.
Return of the Leonids
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 05, 2008 |
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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 ...
Mars Joins The Perseid Meteor Shower For A Beautiful Display On August 12th.
Jul 26, 2005 |
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Got a calendar? Circle this date: Friday, August 12th. Next to the circle write "before sunrise" and "Meteors!" Attach all of the above to your refrigerator in plain view so you won't miss the 2005 Perseid meteor shower. ...
Tweeting Shooting Stars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009 |
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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 ...
100 Explosions on the Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2008 |
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Not so long ago, anyone claiming to see flashes of light on the Moon would be viewed with deep suspicion by professional astronomers. Such reports were filed under "L" ... for lunatic.
Lunar Geminids
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Another meteor shower, another bunch of lunar impacts... "On Dec. 14, 2006, we observed at least five Geminid meteors hitting the Moon," reports Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, ...
The Perseids are Coming
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2009 |
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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. ...
University of Western Ontario cameras capture 'fireball'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 24, 2008 |
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For the second time this year, The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured incredibly rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. The team of astronomers suspects the fireball dropped meteorites in a ...
December offers meteor shower and cluster of three planets
Nov 29, 2006 |
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The Geminid meteor shower is usually the best of the year, but it tends to take a back seat to the Perseid shower of August. The Perseids have the advantage of a pleasant summer night, while the Geminids have ...
Spitzer Telescope Sees Trail of Comet Crumbs
May 11, 2006 |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has snapped a picture of the bits and pieces making up Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3, which is continuing to break apart on its periodic journey around the sun. The new infrared ...
