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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 ...
Sutter's Mill photos at ASU (SM6, SM8, SM38, SM41, SM49) (meteorite-list) Video of the daylight California fireball (Phil Plait 31 May 2012) CAMS News blog (CAMS is an automated video surveillance of the night sky in search of meteors to validate minor showers in the IAU Working List of Meteor Showers) Strewn field maps:
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 best time to watch the Perseid meteor shower in the U.S. was the night of Aug. 11.
The shower peaks at around 2 a.m., according to the The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The Geminds are expected to be most visible along the East Coast . A meteor burns up in the sky over the al-Abrak ...
The oldest known meteor shower, the Lyrids, is peaking this week. The sharp peak falls between April 20 and April 22, according to EarthSky.org , but you may start seeing some flashes across the ...
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 ...
The 2012 UK meteoroid was an object that entered the atmosphere above the United Kingdom on Friday, 21 September 2012, around 11pm. Many news agencies across the UK reported this event. Many news agencies across the UK reported this event.