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Dec. 21 not only marks the start of winter, but the peak of the last meteor shower of the year. If you’re eager to bundle up and see the show, the Ursid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec ...
A sky camera from a National Weather Service forecaster in Pittsburgh captured the meteor darting across the city skyline around 7:30 p. Video captures stunning view of fireball blazing through ...
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 ...
The Orionids meteor shower is produced by Halley's Comet, which was named after the astronomer Edmund Halley and last passed through the inner Solar System in 1986 on its 75–76 year orbit. [10] When the comet passes through the Solar System, the Sun sublimates some of the ice, allowing rock particles to break away from the comet.
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Radiant point of the April Lyrid meteor shower, active each year around April 22. The April Lyrids are a meteor shower lasting from about April 15 to April 29 each year. The radiant of the meteor shower is located near the constellations Lyra and Hercules, near the bright star Vega. The peak of the shower is typically around April 22–23 each ...
A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky at the Mont-Tendre near Montricher in the Jura, north of Geneva, late August 12, 2009. The Perseid meteor shower is sparked every August when the Earth ...