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Via the source, this is a long exposure of a night sky when the Geminids were happening. This photo can give you a sense of how many meteors it's possible to see over an extended viewing.
The Geminid Meteor Showers peak on December 13th and 14th 2017.
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Turns out, a UFO attack reported in 1969 was actually a salvo of meteor fragments.
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Pluto's crater-less surface indicates the presence of geological processes that have erased the marks left by asteroids and comets.
The meteor that produced Arizona's Meteor Crater was a little over half-a-football-field in diameter.
There are a million space rocks nearby. Astronomers have only mapped about 9,700 of them.
Why do meteors come when they do? What does the motion of the planet have to do with meteor speed?
Shooting stars can appear to be moving very fast or seem to linger in the sky. Why is there such a difference in speed?
During a "meteor shower" bits of rocky material that enter our atmosphere from space burn up because of friction.
It was a great moment in the history of NASA, especially since people had been working so long at trying to get a probe to Mars
You’re out on a clear, starry night with your best friend, looking for shooting stars. Look, there’s one, your friend shouts, but by the time you look, it’s gone. There’s another, she cries. Too late, you missed it. Then one comes along that seems to just amble across the sky, nice and slow. Why is it that some shooting stars are so fast and others are much slower? Learn more on this Moment of Science.
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