The bright meteors can also be colorful, and they're fast, moving at 44 miles per second -- among the fastest meteors.
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While meteors and fireballs both make sonic booms, meteors are generally much smaller and therefore quieter as they pass through the atmosphere.
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However, an almost-full moon will outshine fainter meteors, so you&aposre likely to see about 30 meteors each hour, according to NASA.
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"The Delta Aquarid meteors may tend to appear a bit fainter than the Perseids and meteors seen in other major showers," Sky and Telescope reports.
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You should be able to see some meteors in the early evening hours after dark, but the most meteors will be visible from midnight to 4 am, NASA explains.
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" Like most meteors, the show "glows and is gone.
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Maybe those were real meteors and people are in danger?
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The pieces of debris recovered from meteors are called meteorites.
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There are a couple different strategies for spying the meteors.
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These long trails significantly increase your chances of seeing meteors.
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Typically, there are between 10 and 15 meteors per hour.
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The storm was closing in, and meteors pelted the ground.
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They only shoot around 10 to 20 meteors per hour.
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These tiny meteors pose no threat to us on Earth.
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Over time, smaller meteors strike the surface of this interior.
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Even if you find ideal urban viewing conditions, there are a lot of other factors that can affect whether you see meteors, including whether the sky is clear and the properties of meteors themselves.
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Meteors streak across the sky over Usak, Turkey, on Dec. 13.
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Earth gets slammed by a hundred tons of meteors per day.
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In 2014, MMO shooters Planetside died in a hail of meteors.
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For this reason, the meteors are sometimes called the "unicorn" shower.
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A full Beaver Moon will, however, outshine many of those meteors.
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But even smaller meteors injure people, and might even kill them.
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Usually, the project tracks meteors burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
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And, oh yes, space — as in the cosmos, where meteors fly.
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For example, the 1993 Perseids delivered about 300 meteors per hour.
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In addition to his meteor, 35 other meteors struck the planet.
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Spectators can normally see around 60 to 100 meteors an hour.
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On an average night there are six to eight meteors each hour.
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Expect no more than 10 meteors an hour around 3:00 a.m.
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Additional seismic events could be generated by meteors slamming into the surface.
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Meteors tend to travel so fast that they look like shooting stars.
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This year, you can expect around 15 to 20 meteors per hour.
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Marlowe's weather imagery of sucking stars and blazing meteors is outrageously visceral.
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The "hail of meteors" ending says the action is just getting started.
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Meteors are tiny space debris burning up as they hit Earth's atmosphere.
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The richest display of meteors will appear between August 11 and 13.
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At its peak, the shower will see roughly 80 meteors per hour.
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Fireballs and "earthgrazer" meteors are also a hallmark of the Leonid shower.
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The Perseids showcase more bright meteors than any other annual meteor shower.
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The last Leonids storm in 1999 produced about 3,000 meteors per hour.
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That's because the meteors barrel into Earth's atmosphere at about 65,000 mph.
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The seismometers could also detect other seismic vibrations from meteors hitting Mars.
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"Quadrantids are also known for their bright fireball meteors," according to NASA.
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Look to the constellation Gemini, from which the meteors appear to emerge.
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During the 1995 outburst, the hourly rate of meteors was around 400.
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We were treated to an International Space Station flyover and several meteors.
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The Quadrantids are known for bright fireball meteors with long, glowing tails.
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Expect to see a few meteors streak across the sky in an hour.
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Meteorites are fragments spawned from meteors — they are basically pieces of space rock.
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Larger meteors have a greater chance of making it through Earth's atmosphere intact.
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The tracking of meteors is carried out by arrays of cameras on Earth.
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There were so many meteors seen that they appeared to fall like rain.
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Meteor watchers can expect around 18 meteors per hour at the show's peak.
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Early evening meteors may be longer, with dramatic streaks that last several seconds.
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When the "radiant" is highest in the sky, we'll see the most meteors.
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The meteors barrel into Earth's atmosphere with unusual speed, traveling about 148,000 mph.
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"We are meteors that leave no trace," he said, adding after a beat.
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NEOs can be very small and burn up in our atmosphere as meteors.
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And some Leonid showers have numbered an estimated 100,000 meteors in an hour.
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When he did, the legend goes, he saw a sky full of meteors.
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Early evening meteors may be longer, with dramatic streaks that last several seconds.
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So how does a fireball make that noise, while most meteors are silent?
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Despite the city lights, we saw three meteors blaze above the Boston skyline.
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Image: NASASkywatchers should be able to see up to 30 meteors per hour—while the name "shooting stars" is the popular way to describe these little guys, the meteors are actually just tiny flecks of ice burning up in our atmosphere.
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According to NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke, the shower should feature 60 to 70 meteors per hour at its peak this year — fewer than years when the shower is in outburst , when there can be up to 23 meteors per hour. .
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When that debris hits our atmosphere, it will burn up and scar the night sky as meteors in the predawn hours between May 5 and 6 (though you may be able to see a few meteors a night until May 28) .
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It's best seen in dark skies after 10pm, with more meteors closer to dawn.
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In 1966, one of these storms resulted in thousands of meteors per hour, Space.
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Look at the fuzzy tails of passing comets or the bright flashes of meteors.
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The full moon is also expected to interfere with the light from these meteors.
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Observers in the Northern Hemisphere can expect to see about 10 meteors per hour.
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Usually, the shower comes to an impressive peak of almost 100 meteors per hour.
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Though the meteors will appear to radiate from Aquarius, they'll be visible all over.
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It's for that reason that you should go out looking for Perseid meteors now.
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Perseid meteors streak across the sky above Van Lake, in eastern Turkey, on Aug.
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They are like meteors blazing across our political firmament at a moment in time.
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The Northern and Southern Taurids coincide to produce five to 10 meteors each hour.
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Even then, the meteors can be unpredictable, so it's worth watching for a while.
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There's a meteor streaking toward the Earth, as meteors do every 100 million years.
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The composite image shows the bright lights of several meteors blazing into the atmosphere.
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Many meteors disintegrate in our atmosphere, or slow down and crash into the soil.
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Many meteors disintegrate in our atmosphere, or slow down and crash into the soil.
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According to the American Meteor Society, while thousands of meteors each day are bright enough to be referred to as fireballs, only relatively large, slow-moving and sturdy meteors are likely to hit the ground without disintegrating during their passage through the atmosphere.
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There are, however, ways to increase your odds of seeing meteors even in suburban areas.
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The composite image features roughly 65 meteors captured by the photographer between 12:30 a.m.
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You can even summon disasters like erupting volcanoes, tornadoes, and meteors — just because you can.
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The South Taurid meteor shower will last through November, averaging about five meteors per hour.
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From late July through much of August, stargazers will see the brightest meteors before dawn.
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Orionid meteors are known for being some of the fastest and brightest in the sky.
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During a typical shower, a skygazer can expect to see about 100 meteors per hour.
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"He's found outlines of crustaceans, snails and sea worms inside his meteors," the report said.
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Details: Meteors deliver about 2 to 3 tons of space debris to Mars each day.
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You do not need a telescope to watch the meteors streaking across the entire sky.
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Every night, 17 video cameras scattered across the United States scan the skies for meteors.
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They become meteors -- or shooting stars -- when they enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up.
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A new moon on Wednesday and Thursday will provide optimal dark skies for spotting meteors.
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The Orionids produce a shower annually, peaking at around 20 to 25 meteors per hour.
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ET, will have less moonlight obstructing the view of the meteors in the United States.
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In any case, Woods insists these types of meteors aren't usually a cause for concern.
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During that shower — you guessed it — the meteors appear to emanate from the constellation Orion.
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On Wednesday, amateur astronomer Ethan Chappel was on the lookout for Perseid meteors, reports ScienceAlert.
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Many years, it's possible to see up to 60 meteors per hour during the Perseids.
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But you don't need to be staring right at the constellation to see the meteors.
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Observers can expect to see at least 80 meteors an hour streak across the sky.
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Those in the Northern Hemisphere have the best chance of seeing the bright, fireball meteors.
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NASA notes this meteor shower usually produces around 20 meteors per hour at its peak.
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If you can't spot the meteors, at least you'll get a great view of Mars.
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Pop-culture depictions of meteors also often depict them as flaming masses of semi-molten rock.
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The shower is known for its large quantity of meteors, including the possibility of bright fireballs.
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So it will be the better night to see a dozen or so meteors an hour.
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"But scientists know that meteors are not stars at all — they are just bits of rock!"
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"The dust on your bookshelf has just as much meaning as the meaning behind the meteors."
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This is a steady shower that reliably produces an average of 103-20 meteors per hour.
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They were deployed by Sandia National Laboratories to monitor meteors and other events in the atmosphere.
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And you don't need to be looking directly at the constellation Orion to spot the meteors.
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Most small meteors that fall to Earth burn up and disintegrate completely in our planet's atmosphere.
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"It seemed at that moment as if two meteors had collided in the sky," he said.
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Meteors are parts of rock and dust that hit the Earth's atmosphere, heat up and glow.
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Expect to see about 80 meteors per hour, but there could be as many as 200.
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Comets, meteors, and meteorites have been shooting across works of art for more than a millennium.
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In Los Angeles, the moon sets even later, so it will outshine some of the meteors.
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Usually between 160 and 200 meteors dazzle in Earth's atmosphere every hour during the display's peak.
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"You can see up to 90 to 100 meteors an hour in some years," he said.
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Theories and observations ranged from submarine volcanic eruptions and tectonic earthquakes to meteors and space weather.
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You'll have a better chance of seeing more meteors with the Orionid shower later in the month.
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As part of this, meteors have been gradually getting closer to the map, and recently hitting it.
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A team at the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, clocks meteors smaller than grains of sand.
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Although you can catch the meteors clear though the weekend, the best night to try is tonight.
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Without the moon's light getting in the way, these meteors will finally have their chance to shine.
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If the skies are clear, some meteors will be visible Friday night into Saturday morning as well.
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NASA notes these are "fast" meteors, traveling at about 148,000 mph as they smash into our atmosphere.
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Expect to see about 20 meteors per hour during the peak, traveling at 25 miles per second.
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Stargazers should be able to see around 60-70 meteors per hour during the two peak nights.
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And know: You don't need to be looking directly at the constellation Perseus to spot the meteors.
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As many as 200 meteors will burn across Earth's atmosphere every hour late Thursday into Friday morning.
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The meteors themselves are traveling at 132,000 miles per hour, which creates their vivid streaks of light.
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The Leonids meteor shower peaks Monday night, with about 15 meteors streaking across the sky per hour.
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That's ionized gas (not unlike the light you see from neon lamps) glowing in the meteors' wake.
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Then, NASA notes, the moon will set after 3 am, leaving dark skies to illuminate more meteors.
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Its meteors, which number between 213 and 20 per hour, are most visible predawn, between 2 a.m.
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According to Sky and Telescope, onlookers should expect to see around 15 to 20 meteors an hour.
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Its meteors, which number between 223 and 20 per hour, are most visible predawn, between 2 a.m.
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The radiant point of the meteors is in the Monoceros, the Unicorn constellation, near Orion the Hunter.
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And when he visited the valley where the meteors had landed, he discovered that they were gemstones.
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Most meteors and fireballs have no impact (if you'll pardon the pun) on people on the ground.
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But the average amount of meteors an hour during the Lyrids is about 10 or 20, Block says.
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The shower's name is derived from the Draco constellation, where the meteors appear to originate in the sky.
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That night, you'll be able to see as many as 10 to 20 meteors fly through the sky.
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According to EarthSky, the number of meteors this year is estimated to be double that of past years.
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On those peak days, you may see as many as 15 to 20 meteors flashing through the night.
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Although anytime after dark should net you plenty of meteors, the peak will be between midnight and dawn.
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Keep your eyes towards Aquarius Stargazers should look towards the Aquarius constellation during the evenings to spot meteors.
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NASA defines meteors (or shooting stars) as rocks or debris in space that fall through a planet's atmosphere.
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Although the meteors themselves are individually bright and lovely, the Lyrids as a whole are a little unpredictable.
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Piddly piss-peas are a thing of the past—you're conjuring huge whirlwinds and dragging meteors from space.
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NASA estimates that 160 to 200 meteors will ignite in Earth's atmosphere every hour during the display's peak.
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That way you catch meteors as they collide with our atmosphere head-on, making for much brighter explosions.
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On Tuesday night, they beat the Indians using what has become their preferred method: turning baseballs into meteors.
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More specifically: The meteors fly out from a star near the top of the constellation named Eta Aquarii.
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After about 30 minutes in the dark, your eyes will adapt and you will begin to see meteors.
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"Shooting photos of meteors is pretty easy," Mr. Walker said, as long as you're using the right equipment.
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Renderings of food fall from above or bloom on the periphery, doubling as instruments, as architecture, as meteors.
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The Perseids are known for explosions of light and color that last longer than those of typical meteors.
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After they're released, the artificial meteors will travel one-fifth of the way around Earth before entering the atmosphere.
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Earth, for instance, just doesn't seem to have the same composition as the meteors thought to have formed it.
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One startup even hopes to launch a satellite that will light up the opening ceremony sky with manmade meteors.
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This month's celestial event may be even more spectacular because of an increased rate of meteors, according to NASA.
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That shower is expected to grace another clear sky, and will produce as many as 100 meteors every hour.
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The Moon is estimated to have hundreds of thousands of craters, mostly caused by impacts with asteroids and meteors.
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This year, the shower will peak overnight Saturday into early Sunday morning, with 15 to 20 meteors per hour.
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In less than 30 minutes in the dark, your eyes will adapt and you will begin to see meteors.
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The meteors, which are often no bigger than a grain of sand, can pack a punch equivalent to a .
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However, you don't actually need to identify this location because the meteors should be visible all across the sky.
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It's just interesting to locate because meteor showers are named after the constellations the meteors appear to fall from.
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According to NASA, you may be able to see around 15 to 20 meteors an hour during the peak.
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During the meteor shower, he estimated that you'll only see a handful of meteors an hour in the city.
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The bad news is that the moon will be about three-quarters full, obscuring many of the fainter meteors.
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Scientists are expecting a brief, but intense, meteor shower later this week that will have several meteors per minute.
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So are the Five Stars in fact a cluster of meteors, doomed to burn out in the political atmosphere?
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The trip to Mars will take around nine months, assuming you make it through the meteors and cosmic radiation.
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With the moon below the horizon, the night sky will be extra dark, and the meteors will shine brightly.
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The scientists built a computer model of these meteors entering the atmosphere, allowing that porosity to change as they traveled.
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The South Taurid meteors are moving about 17 miles per second, slower than others that occur during different meteor showers.
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Meteors that could destroy an entire U.S. state are a real threat to the earth, NASA's chief warned on Monday.
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An array of microphones sensitive enough to measure shock waves from meteors a centimetre or more across provides additional data.
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Luckily, the moon will be a dim, slim crescent, and won't interfere with seeing the meteors shoot across the sky.
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That will also be the best time to see slower, longer meteors that streak horizontally across the sky, called earthgrazers.
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"The Orionid meteors are debris left behind by Comet Halley, arguably the most famous of all comets," according to EarthSky.
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The meteor shower's name, the Lyrids, comes the from the constellation Lyra from which the meteors once seemed to originate.
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The Delta Aquariid meteors are more faint than others, and they're more apparent in the Southern Hemisphere, according to NASA.
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Meteoroids are pebble-sized bits of space debris that become meteors when they flash as they enter the Earth's atmosphere.
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Meteors in a shower all originate from the same place in the sky and generally fall parallel to one another.
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The Lyrid meteors streak through space at about 107,000 miles per hour and explode about 55 miles in the sky.
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In recent years the Orionid shower has been pretty weak, showing only between 15 and 20 meteors during the peak.
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The meteor shower will peak overnight into Monday, with 70 meteors visible each hour, according to the Royal Astronomical Society.
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The meteors she was seeing, she realized, were memories of her view from the operating table when she was resuscitated.
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The shower actually lasts for weeks, but at its peak you can usually see up to 100 meteors an hour.
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Astronomers also witnessed a space cannonball and discovered how bombastic meteors can be when they explode in the Earth's atmosphere.
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks on Friday night, sending up to 120 multicolored meteors across the night sky per hour.
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You may be able to one or two meteors per minute, if you have access to a dark-enough sky.
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According to EarthSky, the Draconids will hit their peak on October 8, giving you the best chances at seeing more meteors.
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The shower gets its name because the meteors appear to be coming from the direction of the constellation Draco the Dragon.
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It has also made some experts worry about space clutter, and the scary consequences of these artificial meteors hitting important satellites.
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Anyone below that storm probably had no chance of seeing any of the meteors spotted from the Space Station that night.
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Named after the constellation Orion the Hunter, the meteors may be visible in the sky between October 2 and November 7.
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Beyond that, you'll also need a ton of mechanics to dodge a full map of chains, lasers, meteors, and other attacks.
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CBS Sacramento suspects they were meteors, citing three meteor showers—the Delta Aquarids, Alpha Capricornids, and Perseids—that are currently underway.
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These detect not meteors themselves, but rather the trails of ions, generated by friction within the air, that they leave behind.
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The Delta Aquarids typically shoots off 15 to 20 meteors per hour, which is a bit fewer than other meteor showers.
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When the researchers added in material brought to Mars by meteors, the clouds in the middle atmosphere appeared in the model.
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"During its peak, 60 to as many as 200 Quadrantid meteors can be seen per hour under perfect conditions," NASA reports.
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The Lyrid shower is one of the oldest known, with records of visible meteors going back 2,700 years, according to EarthSky.
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The Orionids -- so named because the meteors appear to radiate out from near the Orion constellation -- happen from October to November.
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Viewers in the Southern Hemisphere will have to look toward the northeast horizon to be more likely to see the meteors.
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Chunk by chunk, they fall away, and the vastness of space folds out ahead of you, meteors soaring over your head.
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But you don't need to look in the direction of the constellation, because the meteors will appear all across the sky.
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Unfortunately, this year's shower won't produce a meteor storm, which is when you can see upward of 1,000 meteors per hour.
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The Quadrantids are known for bright, colorful fireball meteors because of the large particles of an asteroid interacting with our atmosphere.
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The meteors are called the alpha Monocerotids, because they are located in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn.
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The meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, but they look the brightest against the darkest sky, which is straight up.
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The agency also advises to give your eyes around 45 minutes to fully adjust to the darkness to view the meteors.
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Every year, thousands of asteroids and meteors loaded with valuable metals like gold, platinum, nickel and iron come whizzing by Earth.
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But the rate could actually mean two to three meteors close together and then another minute before activity picks up again.
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The meteors will be easier to spot the later it gets in the night, as Delta Aquarii rises higher and higher.
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A. Aliens B. Meteors C. Sunspots D. Comets Play "Total Recall," CNN's weekly news quiz, to see if your answer is correct.
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Good luck out there, and if you get any good shots of the meteors, feel free to post them in the comments!
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"Because of their appearance, these streaks of light some people call meteors &aposshooting stars,&apos" NASA explains in a blog post online .
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Each year the Perseid meteor shower shows up in August, dazzling even accidental stargazers with an average of 100 meteors per hour.
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They enter our atmosphere as meteors, where many blow up in mid-air; some make their way to the ground or sea.
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Fireballs, also known as very bright meteors, streak across our sky when debris from a comet breaks up in our upper atmosphere.
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These meteors are also seen in the southern hemisphere, but only during the middle of the night and at a reduced rate.
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Perseid meteors, so named because they come from the direction of the Perseus constellation, are pieces of a comet called Swift-Tuttle.
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Hear CNN Meteorologist Brandon Miller pronounce "Eta Aquarids" Observers in the Northern Hemisphere can expect to see about 10 meteors per hour.
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But the best meteor watching will happen from midnight to dawn on August 2016, with 100 meteors expected to visible per hour.
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The meteors are on the smallish side of average and come in at a moderate speed of about 92,000 miles per hour.
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This year's Orionid meteor shower should be especially good because there will be little moonlight that could otherwise drown out the meteors.
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Viewers in 1966 experienced a spectacular Leonid storm: thousands of meteors per minute fell through Earth's atmosphere during a 15 minute period.
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"The meteors you'll see this year are from comet fly-bys that occurred hundreds if not thousands of years ago," said Cooke.
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Again, if you miss these meteors, hold out until August: The best meteor shower is the Perseid, and it's coming up soon.
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"Under perfect conditions, rates could soar to 200 meteors per hour," Bill Cooke with NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office, said in a statement.
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Disasters, like meteors and the like, can strike your colony but if you've built redundant systems you can probably weather the damage.
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According to Sky and Telescope, an astronomy magazine, you may be able to see around 60 meteors an hour during the peak.
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Aquarius is what's know by astronomers as the "radiant point" of the meteors, though shootings stars can appear anywhere in the sky.
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ET until dawn on May 27, and it's expected to produce as many as 234 to 25 meteors or more per hour.
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Now some meteor showers are more spectacular than others, giving us anywhere from a few to over a hundred meteors an hour.
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The show's peak started Saturday night and runs through Monday night, though the meteors will continue at lower rates through November 30.
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One summer night, when I was a child, my mother and I were scouring the night sky for stars, meteors, and planets.
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If you manage to see them, this meteor shower can brighten the night sky with between 120 and 160 meteors per hour.
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The brightly-colored meteors move at up to 44-miles-per-seond and come without warning, so photographing them is a challenge.
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The cameras that Dr. Jenniskens operates are like video surveillance cameras, but they are directed toward the night sky, watching for meteors.
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"Meteors coming into the Earth's atmosphere happen fairly often but we don't always get to see them," said CNN meteorologist Haley Brink.
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It's inspired one team to create a new way of locating large disturbances in the ocean, like earthquakes, meteors—and even striking airplanes.
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The meteors might be best seen in the very late overnight hours until dawn, as they rise higher and higher in the sky.
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"Earth meets these meteors head-on because they are traveling through space in a direction opposite to that of our home planet," Space.
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During the Perseid meteor showers, you might see an average of 60 to 100 meteors each hour, and the Geminid numbers are similar.
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Last week also brought the Geminid meteor shower, an annual shower that peaks at around 50 meteors per hour in dark enough skies.
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According to EarthSky, your chances of seeing the Quadrantids are also higher because the moon isn't full, meaning it won't outshine the meteors.
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They can also see "earthgrazers," long meteors that seem as though they are skimming the surface of our planet, just along the horizon.
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The light from the moon might make it difficult to make out the meteors, which look their best against a completely dark sky.
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For reference, May's Eta Aquarids meteor shower had a rate of 10 meteors per hour -- slim pickings compared to the Perseids' light show.
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Viewers near the equator will have the best view of the Aquarids, but folks farther north should still get to see some meteors.
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Photo: Khunsa Amin (PNAS)You might think of meteors as flashes in the sky that result in lumpy-looking meteorites on the ground.
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You don't need to be looking directly at Lyra to see the show, though, because the meteors will shoot out in all directions.
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One week, you're being asked to look up at the sky because some rando meteors are putting on a middle school talent show.
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It was a bumper year, with some 200 meteors lighting up the sky every hour when the shower was at its most active.
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"Bright moonlight will reduce the visibility of faint meteors five- to tenfold, transforming the usually fantastic Geminids into an astronomical footnote," NASA said.
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InSight will also deploy a seismometer to listen for marsquakes (like earthquakes, but Martian-style) and for impacts of meteors on the planet.
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But "Earthgrazer" meteors, which skim Earth's atmosphere and showcase long, blazing tails, are visible earlier when the radiant is low above the horizon.
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Similarly, about 900 million years ago, the moon's speed of retreat spiked to 7 centimeters per year as it got bombarded with meteors.
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Most of the meteors are about the size of a grain of sand, but some can be as large as a silver dollar.
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Magic storms with exploding meteors ironically manage to feel more like our "real" superstorms than the relatively idyllic worlds of ocean games do.
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Once every 33 years, our planet races through the trail of a comet and the sky explodes with thousands upon thousands of meteors.
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It's possible that impacts by meteors delivered thiophenes, or that they were created during a reaction between sulfates and hydrocarbons at high temperatures.
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"Under perfect conditions, rates could soar to 200 meteors per hour," said Bill Cooke, NASA's head of meteoroid environments, in a press statement.
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Its display is better seen from the Southern Hemisphere where people normally enjoy between 20 and 30 meteors per hour during its peak.
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That means the sky is very bright with light reflected off the Moon, which will make any Perseid meteors more difficult to see.
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And even today, I still want to visit the unknown regions of the universe, see new stars, new meteors and entirely new systems.
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The Perseid shower in 2016, for example, featured an especially large number of meteors — the phenomenon is known as an outburst, Cooke said.
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These bits of debris become meteors when they collide with the atmosphere of Earth on its own orbital path, burning up on entry.
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It gets its name from the constellation Leo the Lion, because the meteors come from the stars that make up the lion's mane.
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Thay Chansy looked up and saw two meteors Sunday night in Lake Elsinore, California, and then captured more in a time-lapse video.
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If the prediction is correct and that happens again, skygazers can expect to see around seven meteors streaking across the sky per minute.
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The Quadrantids meteor shower can be one of the most remarkable shooting-star displays of the year, since it produces bright fireball meteors.
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Meteors are small particles of debris that are under 10 meters in diameter that burn up in Earth's atmosphere as they pass through.
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The painted structures appear disjointed from their original landmasses, meteors flung far from each other and left to float out in the galactic abyss.
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Forecasters are predicting a Perseid outburst this year with double the normal rates—we're talking more than three meteors a minute under perfect conditions.
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The meteors radiate from the well-known Orion constellation, but you don't have to look in the direction of the constellation to see them.
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The Orionid meteor shower occurs each year as the earth moves through debris left behind by Halley's Comet, the source of the Orionid meteors.
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The best meteor watching should fall between midnight to dawn on August 12, with 160 to 200 meteors expected to be visible per hour.
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The Eta Aquarids' season, the showiness of its individual meteors, and its wide scope make it one of the easiest meteor showers to view.
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But Friday night is prime time; you could see about 20 meteors per hour -- more than at any other point during the Orionid window.
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To make things more complicated, it's hard to completely rule out meteors striking our own atmosphere, glints from passing satellites, or other atmospheric phenomena.
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But if you stay up past midnight, Orion will climb higher and higher in the sky, and the meteors will be easier to spot.
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Some of the Delta Aquariid meteors leave glowing gas trails that linger for a few seconds after they burn up in Earth's upper atmosphere.
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Jupiter's rings are trickier to see because they're much smaller than Saturn's, and are made of dust from meteors colliding with Jupiter's inner moons.
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The Cygnus will also be carrying an instrument called Meteor, that will be used to figure out the composition of meteors entering Earth's atmosphere.
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If you want to optimize your chances of seeing some Lyrid meteors, head out away from city lights, into a light pollution free area.
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The comet's debris is what lights up the sky above us with anywhere between 10 and 60 meteors streaming through the air every hour.
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The shower's name comes from the Eta Aquarii star, a part of the constellation Aquarius the Water Beaver, where the meteors appear to originate.
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Those of us in the north may be able to see about 10 meteors an hour grazing the horizon in the hours before dawn.
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Many of the Perseid meteors will still be plenty bright enough to see from city parks, if you don't have a means to travel.
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You don't need to be looking directly at the constellation to see the show, though, because the meteors will shoot out in all directions.
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Such meteors leave bright traces, and they are still visible in the minds of anyone who had the privilege of watching Ms. Maxwell onstage.
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In a typical year, the meteor shower produces about 10-20 meteors per hour, and in some years, you can see about 50-75.
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The Perseid meteor shower, beginning tonight and stretching into Saturday night, will have a higher-than-usual rate of about 150 meteors per hour.
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Although the celestial event lasts until January 10, the greatest number meteors will be visible for just a couple of hours during this peak.
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Due to the full moon, you can expect to see about 20 meteors streaking across the sky per hour rather than 60 or more.
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This meteor shower is perhaps only rivaled by the Perseid meteor shower in August in the number of meteors you can see per night.
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The reason we poll the Harambes, the Deez Nuts, and the giant meteors of the world is kind of twofold from a serious perspective.
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And unlike galaxies that require a major wallop to tear apart, humans are fragile things susceptible to disease, famine, war, meteors... really, we're quite pathetic.
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The Perseids have some super bright meteors that are sure to put on a spectacular show, no matter how desperate the Moon is for attention.
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One paper from 1956 found that many of the meteors were brighter than a magnitude of 5, and many brighter than a magnitude of 3.
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But meteor magnitudes work a little differently from star magnitudes, University of Chicago astronomy professor Leslie Rogers told Gizmodo, since the meteors also have streaks.
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Though you may see some meteors now, the best time to watch will be in late July, with the shower peaking July 27 and 28.
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The already considerably thick blanket of meteors we see during the Perseids is due to the trail of dust and debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle.
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Some meteor showers are prone to either feast or famine, raining down hundreds of meteors one year, only to slow to a trickle the next.
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With the Delta Aquarids' relatively tiny meteors, you want a long-range view to scan the skies, so binoculars or telescopes are better left behind.
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If estimates hold, people in rural areas with little light pollution should be able to see about 153 meteors per hour under good weather conditions.
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The meteors blaze through the sky as pieces of debris burn up in the atmosphere, traveling at 37 miles per second (59 kilometers per second).
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Image: Mike Lewinski/FlickrThe Earth is once again passing through the debris left behind by Halley's Comet, producing the Orionid meteors that peak this weekend.
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From the Southern Hemisphere, observers should see fewer but still plenty of medium-speed meteors once Gemini rises above the horizon after midnight local time.
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One is outer space, whence carbon-rich molecules, some of which are likely to break down into methane, arrive constantly on meteors of various sizes.
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NASA estimates that between 160 and 0003 meteors will ignite in Earth's atmosphere every hour during the display's peak on Thursday night and Friday morning.
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On Monday, the space agency opened the Planetary Defense Coordination Office to study how to detect and stop big asteroids and meteors from hitting Earth.
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Previous studies have also tried to investigate the meteors for sugar -- but this time, researchers used a different extraction method using hydrochloric acid and water.
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If you're hoping to see some meteors this week, get somewhere that affords you a view of the largest piece of the sky you can find.
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But the populations considered it an omen when that shade did appear on something in the sky, such as meteors, auroras or the moon, he said.
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The full moon is on October 13, but even in the days leading up to it, the bright moon may obscure the light of the meteors.
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Although the Delta Aquariid shower will continue into August, the month's full moon falls early, on August 7, making it harder to see the meteors then.
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Though the famous winter meteor shower peaked Thursday evening into early Friday morning, bright meteors should be visible for the next few days, according to NASA.
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Although the overall number of meteors that show up for observation—10-20 per hour—is relatively modest, the amount of debris is actually much greater.
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The isotope composition of our atmosphere's xenon is a complex story, with lots of contributions from lots of places, such as the solar wind and meteors.
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The meteors, also known as shooting stars, are named Orionids because they appear to radiate from the constellation Orion, named after a hunter of Greek lore.
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The debris from the comet results in the shower, which, on good years, turns into a storm and produces as many as 1,000 meteors an hour.
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As with any shower, it's best to look a little further away from Orion—this will make the meteors you do manage to spot look longer.
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Per the BBC, researchers found two minerals not found on Earth, but known to occur in meteors, embedded in rock located underneath layers of ancient lava.
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Your meteor rates will be lower, but it's possible to see at least a few of the brightest meteors over the course of a few hours.
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The meteors can be traced to the Perseus constellation, from which they get their name, which will climb in the northeastern sky as the evening passes.
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From our perspective, the meteors all seem to come from a single point called the "radiant," but that's because they are moving parallel to each other.
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That said, Jupiter is pounded by meteors on a regular basis—somewhere between 2,000 to 8,000 times the rate of impacts experienced on Earth, reports ScienceAlert.
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This likely due to the fact that the moon was frequently hit by meteors and other debris during the early, chaotic days of our solar system.
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Fireballs are bright meteors, and this one was the second most powerful to enter our atmosphere in 30 years -- the first happened in 2013 over Russia.
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Quadrantids are known for their bright fireball meteors -- larger explosions of light and color that can last longer than an average meteor streak, according to NASA.
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Sometimes the Earth will pass through a heavier field of debris than during other years, increasing the rate of meteors seen, and sometimes the debris is lighter.
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"Look near Orion's club in the hours before dawn and you may see up to 10 to 15 meteors per hour," NASA said in a skywatching video.
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The moon doesn't have an atmosphere or a magnetic field to protect us from the Sun, meteors or cosmic rays, so we can't live on its surface.
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With the moonlight so bright, you're only going to catch the longest and brightest meteors anyway, so it's far better to look out over the full sky.
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Despite being known for its bright meteors, the Perseids are best seen under true dark skies like the ones you'll find in national parks or rural areas.
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Peak meteor viewing happens, much like a properly-planned duel, right around dawn, but you'll be able to see meteors all throughout the night after 10 p.m.
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Typically, the Lyrid meteor shower can showcase between 10 and 20 meteors per hour during the peak, but it's difficult to estimate how many will be visible.
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Now that constellations have standard boundaries, the shower's radiant (the location in the sky from which the meteors appear to arrive) is actually in the constellation Hercules.
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"Fast meteors can leave glowing 'trains' (incandescent bits of debris in the wake of the meteor) which last for several seconds to minutes," the space agency explains.
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The meteor shower gets its name from the constellation Leo, the Lion, as the meteors will be coming from the stars that make up the lion's mane.
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Some of the biggest spikes in reported UFO sightings in recent years have later been explained by meteors, missiles or debris from satellites re-entering the atmosphere.
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The Perseid meteors, which reach their peak every August, are produced by debris from the 109P/Swift-Tuttle comet that passes by the Earth every 133 years.
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Indeed, a number of pilots have witnessed meteors burning up in Earth's atmosphere before, and video of the phenomenon looks quite similar to what the pilots described.
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All of this makes the Geminids "the best and most reliable of the annual meteor showers," usually producing around 120 meteors an hour at peak, NASA notes.
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When that debris hits our atmosphere, it will burn up and burnish the night sky in the form of meteors in the predawn hours on May 5.
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Our planet's pale satellite is the creator of tides, the catcher of meteors and the only other world in the starry ocean where humanity has set foot.
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Don't miss the basement where the University of Arizona Mineral Museum houses fantastically colorful rocks with names like Variscite and Mimetite, as well as pieces of meteors.
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The meteors, also known as shooting stars, get their name as they appear to radiate from the constellation Orion, named after the famed hunter of Greek mythology.
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The alpha Monocertoid meteor shower usually happens each year around November 21 to 23, but during a normal shower it only produces a few meteors each night.
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"The Geminids are typically one of the best and most reliable of the annual meteor showers," NASA notes, usually producing around 120 meteors an hour at peak.
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Each year around this time, Perseid meteors grace skies around the world as the planet passes through an area of debris left behind by the Comet Swift-Tuttle.
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Fireballs — which are bright meteors breaking apart in the atmosphere — are common events, though this December explosion was quite potent, as the most powerful known fireball since 2013.
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The reaction stops quickly, much like how meteors are short-lived in the night sky, and this process essentially fossilized some of the chemistry from Earth's upper atmosphere.
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There's also something about Swisher's character being a scientist involved with the 43 meteors that fell to Earth that I found confusing and am ignoring until it's relevant.
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Now, scientists have discovered that another type Martian cloud, which has previously eluded explanation, is created from the debris of meteors that burn up in the planet's atmosphere.
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The shower gets its name from the constellation it often passes through, Draco the Dragon (and, in fact, sometimes meteors appear to shoot out of the dragon's mouth!).
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During the celestial event, meteors will fan out in all directions, but they will streak from the radiant, the center of the constellation, according to Sky and Telescope.
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A new study in the journal Nature Geoscience finds meteors may be responsible for helping to form clouds in Mars' middle atmosphere, about 18 miles above the ground.
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Eye on the sky Get the popcorn ready: NASA says an increased rate of meteors makes this year's Perseid meteor shower the one blockbuster you have to see.
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"The meteors you'll see this year are from comet flybys that occurred hundreds if not thousands of years ago," NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke said in a statement.
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Stargazers south of the Equator will see between 20 and 30 meteors per hour during the peak, while those to the north will catch about half as many.
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"The great Leonid meteor storm of 1833 did more to spawn the study of meteors than any other single event," the American Meteor Society says on its website.
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All of this makes the Geminids "the best and most reliable of the annual meteor showers," usually producing more than 100 meteors per hour at peak, NASA notes.
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The exhibition showcases more than 50 sculptures, installations, and mixed-media wall works created by Fernández over two decades, often inspired by natural elements like fire and meteors.
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The best way to maximize your potential of seeing meteors, according to American Meteor Society, is to face the sky&aposs northeast quadrant and look about halfway up.
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Yesterday afternoon, PlanetSide's servers were taken offline, the guns fell silent, soldiers put down their guns to have a dance party, and apocalyptic meteors fell from the sky.
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Lie back and attempt to take in as much of the sky as possible, but most importantly, just remain patient and wait for the meteors to fly above you.
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There can be up to 15 to 20 meteors per hour and some can leave behind meteor trains, the so-called glow that's left trailing in a meteor's wake.
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It still leaves plenty of things ambiguous: are the new meteors falling because some alien intelligence is directing them, and after the test case, the invasion is ramping up?
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It's true that 30 bright flashes per hour isn't quite as much action as the Perseid or Geminid showers, which can produce up to 50-100 meteors per hour.
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But the meteors in the Aquarid shower actually quite bright, and since they move very quickly—about 148,000 miles per hour—they leave very long "tails" in the sky.
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According to some forecasts, this year, skywatchers in dark areas should be able to see up to 200 meteors per hour, especially in the early hours of Friday morning.
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Still, it's something to appreciate about nature—somehow, there are meteors that maintain the same orientation as they plummet to Earth, and we have physics to thank for it.
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These meteors are named "Orionid" because they appear to emanate out of the constellation Orion, which takes the shape of a hunter wearing a most-fetching three-star belt.
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Sounding something like William Basinski's Disintegration Loops on steroids, Barri's beautifully abstract images were like red hot iron filings under a spot welder, full of implosions, sparks, and meteors.
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The meteors will appear to radiate out of the star Delta Aquarii, in the constellation Aquarius (which takes the form of a guy pouring out a jug of water).
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In fact, Cooke said that if there is, the number of meteors will be provide some much-needed data for calculating a more exact orbit for the unidentified comet.
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The bright screen will reduce the number of meteors you see by 60 to 80 percent, because it spoils our eye's ability to see some of the fainter streaks.
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If you want to find the point from which the Perseid meteors will radiate, simply search for Perseids and an arrow will pop up directing you toward the location.
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The disputed document outlined the Lieutenant General's belief that, while some may have been the result of "natural phenomena, such as meteors," the objects reported were, in fact, real.
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The Leonids are one of the most dazzling meteor showers and every few decades it produces a meteor storm where more than 1,000 meteors can been seen an hour.
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This energy ripples through space as electromagnetic waves and then crashes into planets and meteors and space debris and one another, causing a great cacophony above and around us.
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It is possible that the impacts of meteors, which InSight might be able to record, rupture the surface and allow underground pockets of methane to rise into the atmosphere.
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Lindsay noted that in his previous images, he left the exposure a bit too long, which meant his meteors turned out a little fainter than he would have liked.
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The outlet adds that meteors should appear all across the sky, so there's no need to zero in on just one particular area — or rely on binoculars or telescopes.
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The authors of the study wrote that such "extraterrestrial bombardment" likely had major consequences for Earth&aposs development throughout history — if the meteors hit certain parts of the planet.
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However, there will be a slightly higher number of falling meteors this year than normal, and many of the brighter ones should be visible in a dark enough sky.
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I glanced around for others to confirm for me, with their eyes to the heavens, that this was happening—the meteors were falling—that we were witnessing a miracle.
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But the cameras also observed that Perseids meteors are closer to the constellation Cassiopeia in July when they are first detected, and nearer to the constellation Camelopardalis in September.
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H. Jay Melosh, a Purdue University professor who is an expert on meteors and impacts, described the new paper as "an intriguing idea," but added that he was unconvinced.
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New this year, for each shower we also give the maximum Zenithal Hourly Rate (ZHR): the maximum number of meteors per hour that could be seen, given absolutely ideal conditions.
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The new research not only explains how these enigmatic clouds form on Mars, it also suggests that meteors may play a larger role in the Martian climate than previously assumed.
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The best time to see this meteor shower, which could produce 10 to 20 meteors per hour during the peak window, is when the moon isn't dominating the night sky.
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Hence, we're pretty jealous of Australian photographer David Finlay, who in one night captured the Aurora Australis, a type of space lightning called "lightning sprites," plus meteors and regular lightning.
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But the Delta Aquaria meteor shower isn't set to peak until tonight and, as astronomer Phil Plait tweeted in reply, last night's "fireballs" were moving too slowly to be meteors.
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In addition to the standard bright meteors, you're going to want to be on the look out for exploding fireballs and the telltale trails of "meteor smoke" they leave behind.
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Speaking of asteroids, these findings also lend credence to the Panspermia Hypothesis—the idea that meteors and comets could have potentially delivered simple organisms to Earth, thus kickstarting Darwinian evolution.
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Winner of Our Moon: From Maurolycus to Moretus, Jordi Delpeix BorrellAn incredibly close-up view of the battered lunar landscape littered with craters forged by impacts from meteors and asteroids.
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But they're different in an important way: The clay in their first experiment was in a fixed position as the water swept past it, but meteors travel through the air.
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In the side-scrolling game, you play the astronauts on the cover of True Sadness, and ride a horse through outer space trying to avoid cosmic obstructions like flying meteors.
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One of the most dramatic parts of 1998's "Armageddon" features most of New York City being destroyed by meteors, including landmarks like the Chrysler Building and Grand Central Station.
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During its most active years, there can be as many as 80 or 90 meteors per hour streaking some 147,000 miles per hour through the atmosphere at the shower's peak.
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The moon might outshine them as it wanes gibbous — the full moon is over, and it's just starting to pass into shadow — but you can still catch a few meteors.
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Several different types of weather got cameos: wind; rain; ice (falling from the sky); meteors; the planets being too close together and making it darker than usual; Ireland; Jon Snow.
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While more routine meteors tend to be the size of a golf ball or a baseball, this one was most likely about one to three meters wide, Mr. Hankey said.
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We certainly saw a super-clear Big Dipper, but not the Milky Way or the meteors or the supposedly mind-blowing intergalactic show of stars darting across the sprawling sky.
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"When you go out tomorrow night," Cooke said, "the meteors you will see will be the material that left that comet around the time of the Civil War or before."
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Prepare to set your watch so you don't miss the potential for a very limited and rare dazzling display in the night sky that could include up to 400 meteors.
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Photo: Getty"The Perseids appear to produce more fireballs than any other meteor shower, where fireballs are extra bright meteors," Caitlin Ahrens, an astronomer at the University of Arkansas, told Gizmodo.
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A Geminid meteor (Image: John Flannery/Flickr)Tomorrow night (weather permitting), you might be able to peer up to the sky and see some of the year's brightest meteors, the Geminids.
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"We have a pretty good understanding of composition based on meteorites we've collected on ground, but most meteors don't make it to the ground," NASA's William Stefanov, said in a statement.
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Click here to view original GIFLyrids radiant / NASAThe radiant, the point where the meteors appear to stream from, will be right above Lyra (the constellation that gives the shower its name).
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Still, AccuWeather's forecast predict mostly clear skies across most of the country this weekend, so if you're outside of any major city, you have a good chance of seeing more meteors.
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Most Perseid meteors are made of pieces of dust about the size of a grain of sand , and almost all of them burn up completely on their way through the atmosphere.
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It&aposs better to watch meteors with the naked eyes than with a telescope or binoculars, because a wider field of view lets you see more of the sky at once.
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Scientists have made huge strides in tracking potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects (NEOs) in recent decades, but both the Bering Sea and Chelyabinsk meteors remained off the grid until they exploded.
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Most years, you can see 15 to 20 meteors blaze across the sky every hour, but this time, we will likely see only one or two an hour, Dr. Cooke said.
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Stretching out above them were countless stars wheeling overheard, with comets and meteors flashing across the inky canvass, all riven by a great white galactic belt that spanned the night sky.
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"Turns out tonight the moon will park itself very close to the Orionid radiant and completely wash out the Orionid meteors," said Bill Cooke, an astronomer with NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.
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These meteors are named "Eta Aquarid" because they appear to emanate out of the constellation Aquarius, which takes the shape of a dude pouring out a jug of water for eternity.
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Meteors like the Chelyabinsk one are fairly common, hitting the Earth every few years, while those on the scale of the Yucatan one happen perhaps every 100 million years or so.
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About 90 percent of meteors are "stony meteorites" made of common rock substances such as silicates, Cooke said, but a few have higher amounts of elements such as nickel and iron.
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Then, by collecting enough data on meteors traveling from the same direction around the same time with the same speed, he can sketch out the orbit of an entire meteor stream.
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But actually, Elvis J. Kurtovic and his Meteors were singing about — in an extremely brutal way that should have been unacceptable to the Communist authorities — Yugoslavia's own prime minister, Milka Planinc.
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In their version of the song, Elvis J. Kurtovic and his Meteors accused Planinc — all while calling her Margaret Thatcher — of ineptitude and corruption in Kosovo, then a rebellious Yugoslav province.
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It also takes about 45 minutes for your eyes to fully adjust to darkness, before you'll likely be able to spot any meteors other than the brightest ones, according to skywatching experts.
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But more than anything, it's important to get as wide a view of the sky as possible, giving yourself a better chance to catch any dim meteors around your field of vision.
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Where between 15 and 20 meteors were expected to be seen every hour of the Orionids, NASA estimates that the Leonids' meteor rates will be about 15 per hour at their peak.
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And The Washington Post discovered a live stream that lets you listen to the ping of radio waves reflected back to Earth by the clouds of ionized gases in the meteors' wakes.
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ET. April 22, 2016 Lyrids meteor shower The Lyrids meteor shower will light up the sky with 230 to 246.8 meteors per hour in April, peaking near the end of the month.
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"The last Perseid outburst, which happened in 2009, was pretty spectacular, with a fair number of fireballs mixed in with the regular meteors," Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office told Gizmodo.
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If you put a big bowl in your backyard and waited for a meteor to hit it, you wouldn't say "meteors don't exist" just because you hadn't caught one in a month.
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While the moonlight is certainly going to obscure some of the meteoroids, the Lyrids are an unusually bright shower with many meteors about as bright as the stars in the Big Dipper.
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What starts out as a group of astronauts celebrating the fact that they're heading home, takes a turn for disaster when the station is seemingly battered by meteors, knocking out important systems.
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Tens of thousands of meteors larger than 10 grams of material fall to Earth each year, though the vast majority fall over rural or oceanic regions well away from direct human observation.
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According to the AMS, "several thousand meteors of fireball magnitude occur in the Earth's atmosphere each day," but most of them happen over water or in sparsely populated parts of the world.
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The very peak of this meteor shower is July 30, but the peak is long and drawn out: You can still see Delta Aquariid meteors tonight and over the next few weeks.
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On the night of August 11th and the morning of August 123th, hundreds of tiny meteors will dart through Earth's night sky, putting on a spectacular light show for late-night viewers.
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Look out this week as the Perseid meteor shower nears its peak before the full moon on August 15 drowns out the light from the meteors burning up in Earth's upper atmosphere.
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The Leonids are one of the most dazzling meteor showers and can produce a meteor storm where more than 1,000 meteors can be seen an hour, as happened in Tucson in 2001.
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The best time to see this meteor shower, which could produce 10 to 20 meteors per hour during the peak window this weekend, is when the moon isn't dominating the night sky.
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Though the show is peaking on the 254 and 222, Earthsky reports a few Delta Aquarid meteors may be seen each night until late August, and that they're best viewed after midnight.
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Though the show is peaking on July 27 and 28, Earthsky reports a few Delta Aquarid meteors may be seen each night until late August, and that they're best viewed after midnight.
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A Perseid meteorPhoto: John Fowler (Flickr)One of the year's most active meteor showers, the Perseids, will peak overnight Saturday into Sunday and Sunday into Monday, with 60 to 70 meteors per hour.
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If you want to see it at its fiercest, when as many as 120 meteors can flash through the air every hour, make it a late night and stay out until 2 a.m.
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But, although the Delta Aquarids have been raining down meteors annually since the 1870s, researchers haven't been able to definitely confirm which comet (or which combination of them) is the shower's main source.
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The shower will actually peak with the most number of meteors during the early morning hours of August 11, 12 and 113 -- which coincides with a bright moon that may outshine the Perseids.
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You can also catch glimpses of the Perseid meteors in the days leading up to the peak, and should be able to see some in the sky until the last week of August.
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The far side of the moon has been impacted over millions of years by meteors and is far more rugged than the smoother lava surfaces on the near side that we see routinely.
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But in those final moments of PlanetSide's life, while I was watching the sky fall and everyone around me die as meteors slammed into the earth, there were programs that were watching too.
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For example, during the Perseid meteor shower you are seeing meteors ejected from when its parent comet, Comet Swift-Tuttle, visited in 1862 or earlier, not from its most recent pass in 1603.
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For example, during the Perseid meteor shower you are seeing meteors ejected from when its parent comet, Comet Swift-Tuttle, visited in 1862 or earlier, not from its most recent pass in 1992.
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To find out if trolling voters with poll questions has any actual public benefit, I called up PPP polling director Tom Jensen, who explained what Harambe and giant meteors demonstrate about American democracy.
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The founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant began his presentation with a graphic of meteors hurtling towards earth, one of which struck the Yellow Dragon Sports Center where the party was being held.
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From a junkyard laboratory to a sinister submarine, via crazy conspiracies and crashed meteors, lost children and hyperactive Pomeranians, there's so much at play in the plot that keeping up can be a task.
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If you're out looking for meteors in the city, it's worth finding the darkest spot you can, far from streetlights, and getting your eyes used to the dark for a half hour or so.
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Although the strength of these meteors might vary in brightness, viewers have a good chance of spotting a shooting star or two during the Delta Aquarids' peak and even the week before and after.
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We were trying to decide on a name for our daughter when we came across Eleanor Francis Helin—an incredible astronomer [in JPL's Near-Earth Tracking program] who discovered all these comets and meteors.
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"Every 33 years, or so, viewers on Earth may experience a Leonid storm that can peak with hundreds to thousands of meteors seen per hour depending on the location of the observer," NASA said.
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Scientists have already discovered evidence of water in the Moon's rocks, which has likely been there since the Moon formed, as well as on its surface, probably deposited by meteors, according to the paper.
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Experts suspect there will be even more shooting stars than average The Perseid meteor shower got its name from the constellation Perseus — the area of the sky where the meteors seem to originate from.
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Because this stream is fairly thin, Jenniskens and Lyytinen said that the shower would be very short-lived—no longer than 40 minutes—but that it could produce hundreds of meteors during that outburst.
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Tell us in the comments, then read a related article about the 160 to 200 meteors that will ignite in Earth's atmosphere every hour during the display's peak on Thursday night and Friday morning.
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"Water on these ocean worlds, under bombardment from other planetary bodies such as meteors or comets, undergoes intense changes for which life might not survive," Jonathan Belof, a physicist at LLNL told Physics Central .
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You can also catch glimpses of the Perseid meteors in the days leading up to the peak, and you should be able to see some in the sky until the last week of August.
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Whether I'm outside waiting to spot a few more meteors or to catch the exact moment of a total lunar eclipse, a ready supply of hot tea keeps me cozy and alert through the night.
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This year, we'll have a half moon to contend with and that should wash out some of the meteors we see but, with so many, not even the moon can obscure the view too much.
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It's perhaps the most massive either has ever sounded, with drums that impact like meteors and synths that roll out like galactic armies, interspersed with the delicate, twinkling instrumentation that Zaytoven has made his signature.
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"If you spend an hour out there watching the meteors, wrap up warm but you should be able to get plenty of photos," Sam Lindsay, an astrophysicist working at the Royal Astronomical Society, told me.
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As the boys grew up, so did the club, eventually becoming the London Mets (a name shortened from the youth team moniker, the Meteors, and not a nod to the more famous New York team).
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If that's accurate, it means that if you can see the stars of the Big Dipper, you should be able to see many of the Perseid meteors, astronomer Steven Bellavia from Brookhaven National Laboratory told Gizmodo.
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For the next few months, the rover's scientific team examined the chemistry of the crater's walls for glimpses into Mars' wetter "Noachian" era more than 3.7 billion years ago, a time of heavy bombardment by meteors.
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Those who can't see the show can still marvel at this thought: "The meteors you'll see this year are from comet flybys that occurred hundreds if not thousands of years ago," said Cooke in the release.
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If you are in the the heart of a city, don't expect to see more than a few meteors tonight, but if you're lucky, some bright shooting stars should break through and give you a show.
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When Gemini is nearly overhead all you have to do to spot these meteors is look up (a star-spotting app like SkyGuide is helpful for knowing exactly where to look and when where you live).
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But fear not: In a Reddit Ask Me Anything session Monday, scientists at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office wrote that most people will still be able to see 30 meteors per hour if the skies are clear.
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Instead, I prefer to spread out a comfortable blanket so I can lie down and look up at the largest possible slice of sky — and hopefully catch sight of a few more meteors than I would otherwise.
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People often speak of meteors and meteorites as if they come from far-flung stars, but the truth is that virtually all of them come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—essentially, our celestial backyard.
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And Wednesday night should be especially good for viewing: The moon will be a thin, waning crescent that won't rise until 3:30 am and will only give off off dim light that shouldn't obscure the meteors.
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The computer itself wasn't rewriteable and still mostly steered the craft toward certain commands, like analyzing for cosmic rays and micro-meteors or tracking solar winds, along with returning the first close images of Jupiter and Saturn.
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Speaking from experience, I used to watch the show as a kid living a mile from New York's JFK airport, and I generally saw a handful of meteors from my backyard with all the house lights turned off.
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And there are obviously not the same water-created features on the Moon that we see here on Earth or on Mars, like drainage channels—though maybe these existed and were eroded by small meteors and solar winds.
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On these nights, I might glimpse a spray of meteors as they streak across the sky, pick out a distant planet amid clumps of stars, or maybe just identify a few familiar constellations, all simply by looking up.
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That number is already enough to tie it with the Geminids for the most prolific shower of the year, but this year we should see rates of almost double the normal amount, with 160-200 meteors each hour.
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Especially if, in the case of dark matter, the meteors pass right through the bowl and the only way to detect that you've caught one is through a faint blip of light it might leave on a camera.
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Although EarthSky predicts this year's shower will be slightly less lively than usual — with only 10 to 15 meteors per hour at its peak — there should be clear views for those who do venture out for a look.
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The name of the shower come from its location in the sky: The meteors seem to radiate from the constellation Leo, which you can identify by a backwards question mark in the sky, its signature alignment of stars.
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The videos that rack up the views are RT's clickbait-y, gateway content: videos of towering tsunamis, meteors striking buildings, shark attacks, amusement park accidents, some that are years old but have comments from within an hour ago.
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But the United States, in this scenario, is led by politicians who either deny that meteors exist or else argue that trying to stop the meteor would be too hard or disrupt the economy too much to bother.
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On Thursday night, Earth might pass through the trail of a comet that humans have never directly observed, but which has lit up our skies with fantastic outbursts of hundreds of meteors for at least the past century.
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A hero who could fly, who could shatter meteors to dust with one punch, reduce tyrants to tears with a few bullet-hard words, and occasionally, with strong but gentle arms, rescue a trapped puppy from a well.
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Scientists are forecasting that the 212 Perseid peak will feature an "outburst," with meteor rates potentially reaching as high as 212 meteors per hour in the darkest skies above the United States, according to NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke.
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A rate of 10 to 15 or even 20 meteors per hour isn't very high, so go into your viewing expecting to hang around outside for a few hours while looking to the sky for the occasional shooting star.
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But fireball explosions mean not only extra bright meteors, it means that you could also see meteor smoke—not actually smoke, but trails of ionized light that linger and wave in the sky even after the meteor is gone.
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Details: The fireball — indeed, the scientific name of these radiant meteors — released an estimated 173 kilotons of energy — roughly 10 times the energy of an atomic bomb, however given its altitude and remote destination, posed no peril on Earth.
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These fast and bright meteors are a favorite for sky watchers, and those in the Northern Hemisphere are sure to be treated to an even more breathtaking event this year because Earth will be closer to the meteor shower.
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Image: Eta Aquarids timelapse / Jeff Berkes of Jeff Berkes PhotographyThe point from whence the meteors seem to stream (called the radiant) is just above the constellation Aquarius and a lot of guides will recommend you start by looking there.
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If you don&apost get a chance to see the meteor shower during its peak, try to catch a glimpse in the days before or after; you should still be able to see Perseid meteors, just in smaller numbers.
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Although you're still likely to catch a few meteors even if you are located in an area with high levels of light pollution (as long as you have a clear sky), you may just miss the fainter shooting stars.
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Red Century ZAGREB, Croatia — In Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, during the 703 Winter Olympics, Elvis J. Kurtovic and his Meteors were performing a cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" in a stifling little basement hall before 300 wild punk rock fans.
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The ideal time to see the most meteors will be between midnight and early morning on August 12, NASA says, but it's still worth it to stargaze earlier this week and in the nights following, since you could see additional action.
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Named for the constellation Leo, from which the meteors appear to fly, the Leonids occur every year sometime in mid-November, and this year, NPR reports, they will reach their peak late on Saturday night and into early Sunday morning.
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Sometimes you can see literally hundreds of meteors per hour (like a particularly weird year in 1803, where observers counted well over 700 per hour) while other years the shower seems to practically disappear, with just a few meteoroids visible.
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When planning for this weekend, you have two options: Turn your Friday festivities into an all-nighter and catch the show before hitting the hay, or wake up extra early on Saturday to have your coffee with a side of meteors.
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But the Perseid meteors — the effect of the Earth passing through the debris field of the Swift-Tuttle comet — should be visible anywhere that you can see stars, which makes them accessible even for Manhattan dwellers (try Inwood Hill Park).
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Stanford researchers, Kolbert and others argue that we're in the midst of the Sixth Extinction, the latest in a series of mass species losses spanning the history of the planet, triggered in the past by meteors, climate shifts or reasons unknown.
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Under usual circumstances, people should expect to see about 60 meteors per hour during the peak of the August shower, but this year, it will be more like 20 per hour, if that, according to NASA skywatching expert Bill Cooke.
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"V838 Monocerotis – a possible Luminous red nova" (Image: NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)/Wikimedia Commons)It's not often that a new body appears in the night sky—aside from meteors and the occasionally comet, things tend to look pretty much the same.
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A recent experiment at the Czech Academy of Sciences managed to recreate the four bases of DNA in a lab by recreating conditions found on Earth about 4 billion years ago, when our planet was getting its ass kicked by asteroids and meteors.
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Toe be clear, this mission has the primary goal of delivering a number of small satellites on behalf of paying customers, including microsatellites from Alba Orbital and a Tokyo -based company called ALE that is using microsatellites to simulate particles from meteors.
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I recently went stargazing in a Bortle 4 site about an hour and a half from New York City, and it was dark enough to see meteors, the band of the Milky Way, and the faint smudge of Andromeda without a telescope.
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In "Meteors, Mischief and Wars," published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1960, Professor Schelling looked at the possibility of an accidental nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union and reviewed three novels that imagined such an event.
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To be clear, this mission has the primary goal of delivering a number of small satellites on behalf of paying customers, including microsatellites from Alba Orbital and a Tokyo -based company called ALE that is using microsatellites to simulate particles from meteors.
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The Feinberg family from the Tel Aviv region drove for two-and-a-half hours for the display but the number of meteors, about one or fewer per minute, failed to truly light up the Ramon Crater's dark night sky as in previous years.
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If so, it's going to be a family endeavor, because Amy is awkwardly connected to the meteors, too: She's an aeronautical engineering professor and "one of the best weapons analysts out there," according to the character whose job it is to loudly explain other characters.
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Skygazers hoping to see the estimated 50 to 100 meteors in the dark, early morning sky should be prepared to look up at least an hour before the peak in case it begins early, but EarthSky suggests watching starting in the late evening of January 3.
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Typically our planet grazes past the outskirts of the Swift-Tuttle debris in August, but once in a while, Jupiter's gravity affects these particles, causing Earth to intersect right in the middle of the debris field, meaning there's a greater potential for more meteors to dot the night sky.
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This year, however, the comet's trail is pulled a little closer to us by Jupiter's gravity—and that means that instead of skirting the trail's edges, our planet passes straight through the thick of it, doubling the amount of debris we see burn up beautifully in our atmosphere as meteors.
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So if you have a question about falling meteors from 500 years ago, you'd just have to ask with a "Hey, Gaea!" to wake the AI. A team of scientists and researchers from all around the world helped develop and research all the information and knowledge included in the interactive experience.
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While examining data from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies — which keeps records of times, dates, velocities and locations of incoming meteors — Harvard University professor Abraham Loeb and undergraduate student Amir Siraj quickly became interested in a particular one that slammed into Earth over Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014.
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A stalled elevation, returning in my old professor's blight marginalia, his book, offered abruptly, taken, stowed away, now posthumously examined: fragile pencil webbings of flickered exclamations, impatient the way he paced the blackboard, erased a word ("meteors"), hurled glances somewhere far off, beyond me, himself a boy-comet, weeping to his duty.
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Scholars and scientists have long explored and debated the astral origins of the iron dagger: in 1973, researcher Judith Kingston Bjorkman's study on meteors and meteorites in the Ancient Near East referred to the weapon having a meteoritic origin, but according to Comelli and her team, Bjorkman did not specify the analytical techniques.
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Though not nearly as flashy as other showers like the Perseids and the Geminids, the Lyrids are the first recorded meteor shower, Sky and Telescope reported last year, with Chinese astronomers documenting the spectacle in 687 BC. The shower does occasionally flare to 100 meteors per hour, though the next big burst probably won't happen for another two decades.
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But, if you want to know what you're looking at in the sky, find the point from which the meteors will generally radiate, predict how the sky will change throughout the night or impress your friends by pointing out planets, satellites and the location of the International Space Station — then there's a few astronomy apps worth checking out.
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Here's one map you can use to help find darker skies in your area; a chart factoring in things like cloud cover (no meteors will be seen on a cloudy night!); and an explanation of the light pollution-measuring Bortle scale, which helps explain what you might see in a dark-enough sky—the lower the number, the more you can see.
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