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  2. Meteor shower - Wikipedia

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    In most years, the most visible meteor shower is the Perseids, which peak on 12 August of each year at over one meteor per minute. NASA has a tool to calculate how many meteors per hour are visible from one's observing location. The Leonid meteor shower peaks around 17 November of each year. The Leonid shower produces a meteor storm, peaking at ...

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

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    Here’s the best time and place to see the annual meteor shower. ... about a day after the peak, so that moonlight is going to wash out the meteors,” Cooke said. ... instead of seeing 40 to 60 ...

  4. How to watch the Orionid meteor shower, debris from Halley’s ...

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    The annual Orionid meteor shower is set to peak Sunday night into Monday at a rate of 10 to 20 meteors per hour. Here’s how to see the spectacle in the night sky.

  5. The last meteor shower of 2023 will peak tonight. Here’s how ...

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    The last annual meteor shower of 2023 will peak on Friday, with a chance for sky-gazers to see five to 10 meteors per hour. The last meteor shower of 2023 will peak tonight. Here’s how to watch

  6. Meteoroid - Wikipedia

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    A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart and appearing to originate from the same fixed point in the sky is called a meteor shower. An estimated 25 million meteoroids, micrometeoroids and other space debris enter Earth's atmosphere each day, [ 9 ] which results in an estimated 15,000 tonnes of that material entering the ...

  7. Phases of Venus - Wikipedia

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    The full cycle from new to full to new again takes 584 days (the time it takes Venus to overtake the Earth in its orbit). Venus (like the Moon) has 4 primary phases of 146 days each. The planet also changes in apparent size from 9.9 arc seconds at full (superior conjunction) up to a maximum of 68 arc seconds at new (inferior conjunction). [1]

  8. Meteorological events to look for in 2024—and where best to ...

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    Venus and Mars are conjunct, meaning they get very close to each other in the sky about once a year. The last time Venus and Mars cozied up was July 27, 2023. What makes this yearly event special ...

  9. Rotation period (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy, the rotation period or spin period [1] of a celestial object (e.g., star, planet, moon, asteroid) has two definitions. The first one corresponds to the sidereal rotation period (or sidereal day), i.e., the time that the object takes to complete a full rotation around its axis relative to the background stars (inertial space).