Mystery meteors slice sky tonight
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Scientists disagree on the origins of the annual Geminid shower but agree that conditions this year favor a spectacular show. Shooting stars of mysterious origin promise a spectacular sky-show tonight for
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We are preparing to visit the North Pole on December 22, to see an unusual meteor shower called the Ursids. This meteor shower radiates from the constellation known as the Little Dipper: Ursa Minor. This minor shower is quite unremarkable in most years, but this year the parent comet 8P/Tuttle is approaching, and it has a strong Perseid-level shower in store for us. We think. We predict a peak time around 20 - 22.2 Universal Time and a width of 5 to 8.5 hours at half the peak rate.
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It&#39;s a celestial event and scientists say the annual Geminid Meteor Shower is the best astronomy show of the year, with meteors shooting across the sky in all directions.
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The annual Geminid meteor shower is expected to produce a reliable shooting star show that will get going Sunday and peak the middle of next week.
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When the Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th, the nearly-full Moon is going to spoil the show.  But there might be something to see before the Moon rises: a side-show of Perseid Earthgrazers.
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The Moon is getting hit by meteoroids more often than anyone expected.  That's the tentative conclusion of astronomers who recently saw two Leonids hit the Moon and explode.
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The Leonid meteor shower will peak on Friday in the early hours before dawn. Sky-watchers say long, glowing meteor trails will highlight the heavenly show.
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A junior version of the famous Perseid meteor shower is scheduled to reach its maximum before sunrise on Sunday morning, Oct. 21. This meteor display is known as the Orionids because the meteors seem to fan out from a region to the north of Orion's second brightest star, ruddy Betelgeuse.
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It looks as if the planets really are in line for the Red Sox this time. A lunar eclipse is due to start less than an hour before the Sox and St. Louis Cardinals play the fourth game of the World Series tonight. If skies are clear, the moon over Busch Stadium will be blood red in ...
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Forecasts for mostly cloudy skies in the Washington area this evening could thwart hopes of seeing tonight&#39;s lunar eclipse. But Elizabeth Warner, director of the University of Maryland Observatory
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Astronomers expect a spectacular display of the Northern Lights in Irish skies tonight.
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If all goes to plan, my research colleagues and I will have front row seats to spectacular New Year fireworks. These are not the artificial bangs and whistles that shoot a few hundred yards into the sky, but the awe-inspiring impact of cosmic dust moving at astronomical speeds. These bits of comet dust travel through space faster than Santa's sled, spanning the distance from Los Angeles to New York in a mere minute and a half. When they hit Earth, the impact of a grain of sand shines so brightly it can be seen for hundreds of miles around. They are called "meteors."
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Hundreds of people called emergency services to report a sonic boom Tuesday that scientists said was probably caused by a small meteor.
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lives in the eastern part of the United  States or Canada and gazing skyward on Tuesday evening may have noticed  something strange in their west-northwest sky.
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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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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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The annual Orionid meteor shower peaks early Sunday morning and could put on a delightful display for skywatchers with clear, dark skies.