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  2. Twin meteor showers will peak just a week apart this month, with the first celestial display taking place on Monday night.. The Southern Taurids will reach their zenith on the night of 4-5 ...

  3. Here’s how to watch this year’s brightest meteor shower - AOL

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    The next and final major annual meteor shower of 2024 will be the Ursids, which are set to peak in the early morning hours of December 22, according to EarthSky. CNN’s Ashley Strickland ...

  4. Perseid meteor shower put on quite a show when it peaked ...

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    A meteor streaks across the sky during the Perseids meteor shower peak at Pedernales Falls State Park, on Aug. 12, 2024, in Johnson City, Texas.

  5. List of meteor showers - Wikipedia

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    This list of meteor streams and peak activity times is based on data from the International Meteor Organization while most of the parent body associations are from Gary W. Kronk book, Meteor Showers: A Descriptive Catalog, Enslow Publishers, New Jersey, ISBN 0-89490-071-4, and from Peter Jenniskens's book, "Meteor Showers and Their Parent ...

  6. Marquez crater - Wikipedia

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    Marquez crater is a meteorite crater located in Leon County, Texas near the small town of Marquez about 177 km (110 mi) northeast of Austin, Texas, United States. [1]It is 12.7 km (8 mi) in diameter and the age is estimated to be 58 ± 2 million years ().

  7. Meteor shower - Wikipedia

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    The Leonid meteor shower peaks around 17 November of each year. The Leonid shower produces a meteor storm, peaking at rates of thousands of meteors per hour. Leonid storms gave birth to the term meteor shower when it was first realised that, during the November 1833 storm, the meteors radiated from near the star Gamma Leonis. The last Leonid ...

  8. How to watch the last night of the perseid meteor shower as ...

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    The world will get its last chance to see the peak of the Perseids meteor shower tonight, as the celestial show begins at sunset. Stargazers could see as many as 100 meteors an hour, in what is ...

  9. Meteor air burst - Wikipedia

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    A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called fireballs or bolides , with the brightest air bursts known as superbolides .