a âgemâ of a meteor show
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If you were disappointed with the meager showing put on by this yearâs Leonid meteor shower, donât fret. What could be the best meteor display of the year is scheduled to reach its peak on Monday night.
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Next week brings the return of the famous Leonid meteor shower, a meteor display that over the past several years has brought great anticipation and excitement to sky watchers around the world.
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PASADENA -- The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak this week. Members of the news media are presented with an excellent opportunity to witness and photograph the event...
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If you were disappointed    with the meager showing put on by this year's Leonid meteor shower, don't fret.    What could be the best meteor display of the year is scheduled to reach its    peak on Monday night, Dec. 13.
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On Sept. 1st, a flurry of bright and oddly-colored meteors could spill across the skies of western North America--or not.  Forecasters are divided about what will happen next month when Earth runs into an ancient stream of debris from Comet Kiess.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.
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For the best seats in the sky, NASA and SETI scientists are taking 10-hour flight at 47,000 feet to view the Quadrantid meteor shower.
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It&#39;s a global celestial event and scientists say the annual Geminid Meteor Shower is the best astronomy show of the year. NASA&#39;s Web site explains that the shower is created as Earth moves through a cloud
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Some of the world's most famous meteorites are up for sale in a New York auction called the first of its kind.
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WASHINGTON, DC - Meteors will shoot across the sky in all directions on Monday night, the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower.
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A computer simulation shows fast-moving fireball amplifies the damage done by a smaller asteroid impact, Sandia National Laboratories researchers conclude.
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A forest fire has led to a chance discovery of debris from the impact of a meteorite 1.85 billion years ago, more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario.
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In 1967, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft was hit by a surprising flurry of meteoroids--a shower more intense than any Leonid meteor storm.  Where did the meteoroids come from? It's been a mystery for 40 years.
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Astronomers have observed an asteroid change the rate at which it spins for the first time, and shown that this is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never before seen.
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The Geminids Meteor Shower, usually one of the best meteor showers of the year, will peak on Monday the 13th of December. Viewers can expect to see as many as 120 meteors an hour at peak time.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.