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  2. Lunar eclipses, supermoons, meteor showers happening in 2025

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    The planet casts a shadow onto the moon and prevents most sunlight from reaching it. The moon is shown during a full lunar eclipse, Sunday, May 15, 2022, near Moscow, Idaho. / Credit: Ted S ...

  3. Meteor shower - Wikipedia

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    In most years, the most visible meteor shower is the Perseids, which peak on 12 August of each year at over one meteor per minute. NASA has a tool to calculate how many meteors per hour are visible from one's observing location. The Leonid meteor shower peaks around 17 November of each year. The Leonid shower produces a meteor storm, peaking at ...

  4. Quadrantids, 1st meteor shower of 2025, expected to peak ...

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    Peak activity is predicted to occur from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. EST, during which the Quadrantids can produce about 120 meteors per hour, according to the AMS. Quadrantids, 1st meteor shower of 2025 ...

  5. List of meteor showers - Wikipedia

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    Named meteor showers recur at approximately the same dates each year. They appear to radiate from a certain point in the sky, known as the radiant, and vary in the speed, frequency and brightness of the meteors. As of January 2024, there are 110 established meteor showers. [1]

  6. When and where to see the Quadrantids, 2025's first meteor shower

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    The Quadrantids have the potential of 200 meteors an hour under perfect conditions, but most astronomy fans can catch 20-30 meteors an hour under clear, dark skies during the peak, according to NASA.

  7. Meteoroid - Wikipedia

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    A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart and appearing to originate from the same fixed point in the sky is called a meteor shower. An estimated 25 million meteoroids, micrometeoroids and other space debris enter Earth's atmosphere each day, [ 9 ] which results in an estimated 15,000 tonnes of that material entering the ...

  8. Quadrantids hits peak activity: Here's when and how to watch ...

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    Unlike most meteor showers, the Quadrantid meteor shower doesn't originate from a comet, but from an asteroid. For many years, the origin of the Quadrantids remained unknown. Though the ...

  9. Impact events on Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    [7] 2018 studies estimate that between 10 and 65 impacts per year of meteoroids with a diameter of between 5 and 20 meters (16 and 66 ft) can occur on the planet. For larger objects capable of leaving a visible scar on the planet's cloud cover for weeks, that study gives an impact frequency of one every 2–12 years.