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CAMS (the Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance project) is a NASA-sponsored international project that tracks and triangulates meteors during night-time video surveillance in order to map and monitor meteor showers. Data processing is housed at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute [1] in California, USA.
The asteroid's provisional designation as a minor planet, "2024 YR 4", was assigned by the Minor Planet Center when its discovery was announced on 27 December 2024. [2] The first letter, "Y", indicates that the asteroid was discovered in the second half-month of December (16 to 31 December), and "R 4" indicates that it was the 117th provisional designation to be assigned in that half-month.
Its affiliates observe, monitor, collect data on, study, and report on meteors, meteor showers, meteoric fireballs, and related meteoric phenomena. The society publishes observations and scientific interpretations quarterly in Meteor Trails , The Journal of American Meteor Society .
The Quadrantids, which NASA considers "one of the best" annual meteor showers, is active from Dec. 28 through Jan. 16, 2025
The Lyrid meteor shower is one of the oldest known meteor showers, according to NASA. The Lyrids have been observed for about 2,700 years. The first recorded sighting of a Lyrid meteor shower was ...
Experts believe about 10 to 50 meteorites-- the debris found after a meteor falls -- are dropped every day on Earth. Of course, the majority of these meteorites and their meteors aren't seen ...
By comparison, the February 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor impact was from an object estimated at 17 m (60 ft) diameter. Its arrival direction happened to be close to the Sun [33] and it therefore was in the blind spot of any Earth-based visible light warning system. A similar object arriving from a dark direction would now be detected by ATLAS a few ...
All-sky view of the 1998 Leonids shower. 156 meteors were captured in this 4-hour image.. In astronomy, the zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) of a meteor shower is the number of meteors a single observer would see in an hour of peak activity if the radiant was at the zenith, assuming the seeing conditions are perfect [1] (when and where stars with apparent magnitudes up to 6.5 are visible to the ...