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Meteor Shower (Chinese: 一起来看流星雨; pinyin: Yīqǐ Lái Kàn Liúxīngyǔ) is a 2009 Chinese television series starring Hans Zhang, Yu Haoming, Vision Wei and Zhu Zixiao. It premiered on Hunan Television on August 8, 2009.
Meteor is a 2009 American disaster television miniseries directed by Ernie Barbarash, written by Alex Greenfield and distributed by RHI Entertainment, in association with Alpine Medien Productions, Larry Levinson Productions and Grand Army Entertainment. Shot in the United States, the series stars Marla Sokoloff, Michael Rooker, Billy Campbell ...
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 ...
The annual Orionid meteor shower, which originates from Halley's Comet, is expected light up the night sky starting this weekend. ... such as 2006 to 2009, the peak rates were on par with the ...
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 ...
On average, the Orionids produce anywhere from 10 to 20 meteors per hour at their peak in mid-to-late October. An exception came between 2006 and 2009 when the 50 to 75 meteors the Orionids put ...
The annual Quadrantid meteor shower will return to the night sky on December 26 and will be at its most active as 2025 kicks off, according to the American Meteor Society.
The Leonids are famous because their meteor showers, or storms, can be among the most spectacular. Because of the storm of 1833 and the developments in scientific thought of the time (see for example the identification of Halley's Comet), the Leonids have had a major effect on the scientific study of meteors, which had previously been thought to be atmospheric phenomena.