Geminid meteor shower to peak on 14th December 2009

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Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(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 ...

Perseid Meteor Shower To Peak Aug. 12

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Aug 07, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 0

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 ...

Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required

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Dec 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(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 ...

Venus Disappears during Meteor Shower

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Apr 17, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 0

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 ...

The 2009 Geminid Meteor Shower (w/ Video)

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Dec 08, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0

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.

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 ...

Meteor showers in Asia disappoint

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Nov 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(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 ...

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.

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 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower

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Jul 22, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (23) | 1

Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show.

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.

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 ...

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.

Asteroid Shower

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Dec 03, 2007 | 4.4 / 5 (18) | 0

Mark your calendar: The best meteor shower of 2007 peaks on Friday, December 14th.

Natural fireworks, courtesy of the Perseid meteor shower

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Aug 07, 2007 | 3.8 / 5 (28) | 0

As the Perseid meteor shower becomes visible in all its glory on 13 August, natural fireworks will fill the sky. Showers of meteors, or ‘shooting stars’, appear as bright streaks of light in the sky. The display ...