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  2. Taurid Meteor Shower Entering Earth's Atmosphere This Week ...

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    The Southern Taurids meteor shower will enter its peak on Monday night — and people across the world can view it at midnight local time Taurid Meteor Shower Entering Earth's Atmosphere This Week ...

  3. Meteoroid - Wikipedia

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    A meteor, known colloquially as a shooting star or falling star, is the visible passage of a glowing meteoroid, micrometeoroid, comet or asteroid through Earth's atmosphere, after being heated to incandescence by collisions with air molecules in the upper atmosphere, [11] [23] [24] creating a streak of light via its rapid motion and sometimes ...

  4. Orionids meteor shower coming this weekend. Here's where to ...

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    The Orionid meteor shower is caused by Halley's Comet, which takes 76 years to orbit the sun and was last seen in 1986. Each time Halley's Comet returns to the inner solar system, it sheds ice and ...

  5. 2024 BX1 - Wikipedia

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    2024 BX 1, previously known under its temporary designation Sar2736, was a 44 centimetre-sized (17 inches) [4] asteroid or meteoroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on 21 January 2024 00:33 UTC and disintegrated as a meteor over Berlin. [2] [7] The recovered fragments are known as the Ribbeck meteorite.

  6. Meteor shower - Wikipedia

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    A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost ...

  7. List of asteroid close approaches to Earth - Wikipedia

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    Objects which enter and then leave Earth's atmosphere, the so-called Earth-grazers, are a distinct phenomenon, inasmuch as entering the lower atmosphere can constitute an impact event rather than a close pass. Earth-grazer can also be short for a body that "grazes" the orbit of the Earth, in a different context.

  8. There was a meteor shower that could be seen from Akron last ...

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    The Geminids meteor shower, one of the most popular annual showers, was expected to peak Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Here's what to know. The Geminids meteor shower, one of the most ...

  9. Taurids - Wikipedia

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    The Taurids are an annual meteor shower, associated with the comet Encke.The Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. The Southern Taurids originated from Comet Encke, while the Northern Taurids originated from the asteroid 2004 TG 10, possibly a large fragment of Encke due to its similar orbital parameters.