Gather.com A meteor shower? Aliens? A new study shows that dinosaurs were likely killed by a meteor shower, but not one that sent a few rocks to earth. ... Impact hypothesis loses its sparkle
PhysOrg.com One theory is that either a comet airburst or a meteor impact somewhere in North America set off massive environmental changes that killed animals and ...
Space Daily by Morris Jones Every year, the world is treated to several well-known meteor showers. The Leonids, Draconids, Perseids and others usually get mentioned in ...
By mfries01 Radar Obs of Meteor Events. 29 August 2010 / mfries01. Berthoud, CO (05 Oct 04 ~1930 UTC) The Berthoud fall consists of the witnessed fall of a single, monomict eucrite. Several members of a family heard "a whistling noise" and a "thump", and one person saw the meteorite fall ~100 feet from [...] Radar Obs of Meteor Events - http://radarmeteorites.wordpress.com/
Science & Environment BBC Radio 1 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:38 PM PDT
The dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago by at least two meteorite impacts, rather than a single strike, a new study suggests. Previously, scientists had identified a huge impact crater in the Gulf of Mexico as the event that spelled doom for the dinosaurs. ...
Pudiera ser que el enorme meteorito halla tenido qué ver con la ruptura del continente Gondwana, creando o acelarando la falla tectónica que entonces empujó ...
I learned this at the Meteor Crater in Arizona. They were originally looking for the meteor in the dead center of the crater since they figured that's how ...
cbs4denver.com - 12 hours ago
"When it first hit, I though a meteor dropped out of the sky." Steinle called the Colorado State Patrol as she assessed the damage and discovered a wrench ...
"The meteorite that created the Meteor Crater in Arizona was probably only about 50 yards across," he continued, "when you think about it, that wasn't all ...
Double strike 'killed dinosaurs' BBC News Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:07 AM PDT
The dinosaurs were wiped out by at least two meteorite impacts rather than a single strike, say scientists....
UPI.com 27 (UPI) -- A UK researcher says the theory of a meteor impact killing off dinosaurs needs to be tweaked at bit, suggesting there was not one but many ...
Huge Sudbury-like meteorite impact structure to be drilled for nickel Mineweb Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:46 AM PDT The Impact Minerals/CITIC jv holding the majority of the Yarabubba Project in Western Australia are ready to start drilling in this Sudbury-like structure for nickel and possible pgms. ...
Bay Post/Moruya Examiner She was returning from the beach on August 17 and about to cross the road to her home on George Bass Drive when she saw a meteor entering the Earth's ...
火星展。2010年7月24日（土）〜10月30日（土），東京大学 総合研究博物館。 www.um.u- tokyo.ac.jp/exhibition/2010MARS.html. Photos of the meteorite exhibit at the University of Tokyo until OCT 30, 2010. www.flickr.com/photos/tokyo_devices/4923720304/
PhysicsCentral.com (blog) The ASU researchers acquired a small piece of a meteorite from a private dealer that had gotten the space rock off a local in Morocco after it was found in ...
Solar System may be 2 million years older than we thought, meteorite analysis suggests Science Daily Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:15 AM PDT Timescales of early Solar System processes rely on precise, accurate and consistent ages obtained with radiometric dating. However, recent advances in instrumentation now allow scientists to make more precise measurements, some of which are revealing inconsistencies in the ages of samples. Seeking better constraints on the age of the Solar System, researchers analyzed meteorite Northwest Africa ...
MANY of us heard the loud rumble, and some were even lucky enough to see something in the sky, but simply everyone is talking about the supposed meteor that exploded over the Tombong area last Tuesday afternoon. ...
Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent, BBC News ... Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers. The bugs were put on the exterior of the space station to see how they would cope in the hostile conditions that exist above the Earth's atmosphere. ... [more and Video]
International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation-- September 20, 2010 Texas A&M University-College Station, Texas The International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation, to be held September 20th, 2010 in College Station, Texas, will bring together an international community of researchers and practitioners to discuss new research results, mitigation strategies, international collaboration, and public awareness. In additional to presentations from attendees, around table will be held to discuss future international cooperation ...
The rock sat in the D'Addarios' garage until the family's curiosity was piqued by television shows such as the Science Channel's "Meteorite Men." "I don't ...
Nickel, titanium and sometimes from meteorites. A meteorite is very difficult to get hold of and raw titanium is very expensive. Sometimes, I use ornamental ...
Arizona State University Bouvier and fellow ASU researcher Meenakshi Wadhwa analyzed meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 2364 and found that the age of the Solar System predates ...
National Geographic Pea-size minerals inside a meteorite are the oldest known material in the solar system, a new study says. At 4568.2 million years old, the minerals push ...
Scientific American (blog) By John Matson A new analysis of a meteorite shows that an inclusion within the carbonaceous stone is older than any known material in the solar system. ...
Solar System is older than previously thought New Kerala Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:56 AM PDT Analyses of the meteorite indicate that the Solar system is at least 0.3-1.9 million years older than some previous studies projected - making it 4.568 billion years old.
The Hindu Analyses of the meteorite discovered in the Saharan desert indicate that the solar system is 4.568 billion years old. A meteor discovered in the Saharan ...
National Turk English Past flashes of light which were seen on the surface of Jupiter had left craters indicating that the suspected meteorite which caused the flash were large ...
Discovery News A newly studied meteorite reveals that the solar system is nearly 2 million years older than once thought. The meteorite contained some of the oldest ...
Huffington Post (blog) ... Observatory of Japan, told Kyodo News. Since the object left no visible trace on the planet's surface, the meteor may have been less than 1 km wide. ...
Register The MoD subsequently concluded that the spacecraft was in fact a meteor, widely seen across the UK that night, and that the "almighty bang" was an unrelated ...
TG Daily A Japanese amateur astronomer has captured what appears to be the second meteor strike on Jupiter in three months. Masayuki Tachikawa captured video of a ...
Wired News The currently accepted age of the solar system — about 4.56 billion years — was calculated by measuring parts of meteorites called calcium-aluminum-rich ...
Softpedia The new investigation, conducted on a piece of meteor rock, established that the object was no less than 4.5682 billion years old, an age 1.9 million years ...
Telegraph.co.uk Photo: NASA/ JPL Researchers revised the age after analysing a mineral "relic" buried deep within the meteorite, known as an inclusion, found in the Sahara ...
Gizmodo Australia By Jack Loftus on August 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM Jupiter, our colourfully spotted gas giant neighbour was hit, again, by a meteor on Friday. ...
msnbc.com (blog) A Japanese amateur astronomer witnessed a flash on Jupiter over the weekend - less than three months after similar blip, apparently caused by a meteor fall, ...
Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought TVNZ Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:40 PM PDT The Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought after a study produced evidencefrom a meteorite found in the Moroccan desert that contains a "relict" mineral ...
Scientists age solar system by 2m years News.com.au Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:33 PM PDT THE solar system could be up to 2m years older than previously thought, according to researchers who what is thought to be the oldest meteorite to have struck the Earth.
Solar System older than thought Straits Times Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:23 PM PDT PARIS - THE Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought, according to a study published on Sunday by the journal Nature Geoscience. The evidence comes from a 1.49 kg meteorite, found in the Moroccan desert in 2004, that contains a 'relict' mineral, which is one of the oldest solid materials formed after the birth of the Sun....
Solar system slips back in time New Scientist Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:14 AM PDT New meteorite evidence has just pushed the age of the solar system back by hundreds of thousands of years ...
Space.com Researchers studying bits of a meteorite discovered that the space rock was 4.5682 billion years old, predating previous estimates of the solar system's age ...
Asteroid impact on Jupiter Aug 22, 2010 17:10 Moscow Time An amateur astronomer in Japan has observed a cosmic impact of Jupiter. He successfully photographed a flash which lasted almost two seconds. The National Observatory believes Mr Masayuki Tatikawa watched the crash of an asteroid or a comet about a kilometre across. Original post in Russian News (English): http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/08/22/16797121.html
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FIREBALL ON JUPITER: An amateur astronomer in Japan has video-recorded a fireball on Jupiter. This marks the third time in only 13 months that amateur astronomers have detected signs of something hitting the giant planet. Will the latest impact leave behind a visible cloud of debris? Great images and full text...
Piece of a comet in / luminous stone image landed in Iran Mehr News- Iran Tehran:09:21,05/31/1389
همزمان با اوج بارش شهابی برساوشی تکه ای از بازمانده دنباله دار سوئفت تاتل به صورت آذرگوی درخشان یا سنگ نورانی در آسمان ایران دیده شده و احتمالا در بخشهای شرقی ایران به خاک افتاده است که به باور اخترشناسان این آذرگوی تکه ای از بازمانده سوئیفت تاتل است.With the peak of Perseids surviving piece of comet Swift Zrgvy Tatl as bright or brighter the stone seen in the sky of Iran and possibly in eastern parts of the fallen, which astronomers believe that this piece of Zrgvy Tatl Swift is a survivor.
... This Zrgvy (fireball) magnitude 18 - or 20 - which cities in the sky Mrnjab, Abadeh, Zahedan, Taftan, Yazd and other cities in central Iran has been registered by the observers.این تکه از دنباله دار احتمالا در بخشهای شرقی ایران به خاک افتاده است. This piece of comet parts of eastern Iran probably has fallen. ...
Press TV Iranian meteor shower enthusiasts have particularly enjoyed the August show put on by the Perseids, which was heralded by a brilliant fireball, ...
Mother Nature Network By Katherine ButlerSat, Aug 21 2010 at 11:56 AM EST Comments A large meteorite smashed into what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico, some million or billion years ...
Countdown to Vesta
NASA Science News- August 19, 2010 Let the countdown begin. NASA's Dawn spacecraft is less than one year away from giant asteroid Vesta. "There's nothing more exciting than revealing an unexplored, alien world," says Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Vesta," he predicts, "is going to amaze us." Dawn is slated to enter orbit around Vesta in late July 2011. As the first breathtaking images are beamed back to Earth, researchers will quickly combine them into a movie, allowing us all to ride along. ... (more) http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/19aug_dawn2/
Space.com: The 2010 Perseid meteor shower lived up to its promise of a meteor per minute just before dawn Friday, providing an excellent celestial spectacle ...
na11 MeteorScan 020728d 1 40sec, 10 0, 13st, PER video posted on YouTube by
WalesOnline “I had the meteorite people call here. There's a smell of sulphur with meteors and there was no smell, just night air. “We just saw this huge ball glowing ...
`Star Gazer' host Jack Horkheimer dies By ELINOR J. BRECHER crline ebrecher@MiamiHerald.com Jack Horkheimer, Public Television's ``Star Gazer'', died Friday afternoon of a respiratory ailment, according to a spokesman for the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium.Born June 11, 1938, he was 72. ... Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/20/1785361/star-gazer-host-jack-horkheimer.html#ixzz0xCELKTTs
KATU (blog) First of all, take a look at this time lapse video that has been posted of the Perseid Meteor Shower raging above Mt. Rainier last week. ...
Tempo Interaktif TEMPO Interactive, Cirebon:A meteor allegedly fell [18AUG2010] on an open area in Tersana Baru Sugar Factory in Babakan, Cirebon, (Indonesia) yesterday. The strange object gave off ... [smells like a hoax]
BCLocalNews By Jim McGregor - Langley Times Our little insignificant planet scooted through the annual meteor shower last week, and by all reports we are all still in ...
Basingstoke Gazette By Emily Roberts » ASTRONOMERS were treated to a spectacular show in the sky last week when a meteor shower was seen above Basingstoke. ...
KENS 5 TV - TX "He walked in just pale as a ghost, and said mom something happened outside, I don't know what it was," Said Marianna Gardea, "Finally a meteor just came to ... [likely HOAX!]
Posted on August 17, 2010 at 10:56 PM A family out of Leon Springs, (TX) had a strange experience Monday night. It's a flash and a find they'll talk about for years to come. ... [ seems to be a HOAX]
Video produced by Program Domingo Espetacular - TV Record - about the Varre-sai Meteorite. Vídeo produzido pelo Programa Domingo Espetacular da Tv Record sobre o meteorito de Varre-Sai.
People's World The crowd was reacting to an especially large, dazzling, meteor flashing across the starry sky above the Olympic Mountains. It was after midnight, ...
Republican & Herald By Vicki Terwilliger (Staff writer vicki-t@citizenstandard.com) VICKI TERWILLIGER/staff photos Ralph Lucht believes a meteorite may have caused the damage ...
The Planetary Society Emily Lakdawalla reveals her new animations of Enceladus geysers and the Martian north pole, and Bruce Betts gives Mat Kaplan meteor shower viewing tips in ...
Khabrein Saw the Best Meteor Showers of the Year? Ancient sky show plays again The appearance of Perseid meteor shower was a huge hit as thousands turned up to watch ...
Urlesque (blog) Every year about this time, for the last 2000 years or so, the night sky lights up with ancient debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet. ...
Parkersburg News (blog) The recent Perseid Meteor Shower provided backyard stargazers a real show. Yeah, I know, star watching is not all that exciting most of the time, however, ...
Coshocton Tribune I was rewarded with an occasional meteor here and there, usually at the periphery of my vision rather than where I was actually looking. ...
StarCityNews.com Perseid meteor shower going on there for a week, and the peak occurred on the second night. According to the United States space agency, NASA, the meteor...
Associated Content Perseid meteor shower August 2010 is underway, as the meteor shower began on July 23 and extends until August 24. The peak of this year's Perseids was ...
Pittsburg Morning Sun By ANDREW NASH Josh Cochran, Greenbush observatory director, believes that meteor showers are a show for everyone. “I think the thing that's great about ...
The Herald Journal The Friday event coincided with the height of the Perseid meteor shower, which creates a steady stream of shooting stars in late summer. ...
TopNews United Kingdom (blog) Meteor shower is back this year. Each year during this time, the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet called Swift-Tuttle, which results in a meteor...
Instead of staring at the TV late Thursday night, how about staring at the sky? Stargazing is on the agenda for many people this week with the annual ...
Seattle Times Stargazers gather to watch the Perseid meteor showers this week. The showers coincide not only with beautiful summer weather and weekend viewing ...
Was it really a meteorite? The Daily Jeffersonian Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:24 AM PDT QUAKER CITY -- A Quaker City man continued his quest Thursday for answers as to the nature and origin of a rock that he believes may be a meteorite. That quest led him to Columbus on Wednesday, ... [same swimming pool rock...hoax]
Reuters A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over El Torcal nature park reserve in the southern Spanish town of Antequera, near Malaga, early August 13, ...
Christian Science Monitor The Perseid meteor shower poses minimal risk to spacewalking astronauts trying to repair the International Space Station, and might even offer them a ...
ABC News By NED POTTER If you went outside between midnight and dawn this morning, and the Perseid meteor shower of 2010 was good to you, you could see the sky ...
Washington Post A meteor streaks across the starry sky over Stonehenge, in Salisbury Plain, England. The Perseid meteor shower is sparked every August when the Earth passes ...
Salt Lake Tribune (blog) In addition to the meteor showers, you can see Venus, Mars and Saturn really well right now. We saw them the other night without a telescope! ...
msnbc.com The 2010 Perseid meteor shower lived up to its promise of a meteor per minute just before dawn Friday, providing an excellent celestial spectacle for people ...
National Geographic While an electric-lighted line of mountain climbers snakes toward it, a meteor streaks over Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro in a photograph released Monday. ...
News Fire Anyone who missed this week's Perseid Meteor display due to Britain's cloudy summer skies and city haze can take solace in Explorers' newest astronomy tour, ...
Keen Observers Perseid Meteor Shower August 2010 Tonight – People might wonder during the month of August, when they are on vacation in the country where skies are dark, ...
BBC News UK star-gazers have reported seeing dozens of shooting stars as the Perseid meteor shower reached its climax overnight. The Royal Astronomical Society says ...
Examiner.com Tonight is the night for a display that only comes once a year – the Perseid meteor shower. With the moon down and out of the way, places with clear skies ...
Ha'aretz By Asaf Shtull-Trauring The annual Perseid meteor shower, which is expected to peak late Thursday night, promises to be the one of the best displays of the ...
Boone Mountain Times by Lauren K. Ohnesorge The Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak Thursday and, according to astronomer and Appalachian State University professor Dan ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Meteors of the Perseid meteor are often seen in these days most. If the sky remains clear the conditions are ideal - the moon does not affect the ...
1 min Video Compilation of Perseid Meteors recorded on the evening of the 10th/ morning of the 11th of August 2010 for Meteorwatch ... youtube.com ************************************************************** Quick Perseid Summary by Bob Lunsford- posted on Meteorobs.org
Rates were unimpressive this morning (Aug 12) but bright meteors were aplenty. The best was a yellow -7 Perseid fireball that shot overhead and left a twisting train that lasted for nearly 30 seconds. Earlier, there was a -5 Perseid that shot down toward Polaris and left a 45 second train. Many others were of negative magnitudes, but not fireballs. An impressive -2 earthgrazing Eridanid was a highlight of the night. I think the highlight of the night was an intense orange, -3 Alpha Capricornid, that lasted 3 seconds and fragmented toward the end of its flight. Data will follow.... ******************************************************
The Latest Information of Perseids 2010 (The International Project for Radio Meteor Observation) ====Updated: 14:00UT 12th August. Using worldwide radio data, the latest information of Perseids 2010 is updated. http://www.amro-net.jp/meteor-results/08_per/2010per.html
The unusual activity has not been seen yet. If you have radio date, please send me your free format (I hope RMOB format) from 1st August. I really appreciate world radio meteor observers !! With best wishes, Hiroshi Ogawa (The Nippon Meteor Society) ***************************************************
PERSEID METEOR SHOWER: The annual Perseid meteor shower is underway. Earth is passing through a wide stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, and each time a fleck of comet dust hits Earth's atmosphere--flash!--there is a meteor. Forecasters say the shower will peak on Thursday, August 12th, and Friday, August 13th. You can see Perseids flitting across the sky at any time between about 10 pm on Thursday evening and sunrise on Friday morning. Observers who get away from city lights can expect to count dozens of meteors per hour, especially during the dark hours before dawn.
for full coverage of the shower, including a live meteor radar, a "fireball cam," updated meteor counts and pictures from around the world. ... ********************************************************************
USA Today Tonight and tomorrow night marks peak viewing for one of the most prolific and awe-inspiring annual meteor showers visible in North America, the Perseids, ...
Christian Science Monitor Perseid meteor shower tonight is at its peak. It's the only meteor shower known to have killed a satellite and delayed a space-shuttle launch. ...
Montreal Gazette By Andrew Fazekas, The Gazette August 12, 2010 1:06 PM A meteor streaks towards the horizon during the annual Persied shower in Florida in August 2008. ...
Space.com By Tariq Malik The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight, promising dazzling fireball displays to lucky skywatchers, but the cosmic rain of space rocks hasn't ...
UK Today News If there are cloudy skies, the it will be difficult to view the meteor shower. According to the NASA astronomers, an average of about 75 meteors per hour ...
NewsNet5.com Pat Foraker, of Quaker City, believes the small rock was a meteorite. “This thing came and hit me on the left shoulder,” Foraker said, holding the object. ... [my opinion- hoax]
Boston Globe The yearly Perseid meteor show is expected to be visible tonight and here's all you need to know about getting a glimpse of the celestial light show. ...
Grant Tribune Sentinel 12, because you don't want to miss the annual Perseid meteor shower. The Perseids are one of the premium meteor showers of the year. ...
Popular Photography Magazine If you dwell in a big, bright city with a lot of lights, your chances of catching a worthwhile meteor image are going to be slim. You're going to be dealing ...
Christian Science Monitor Meteor shower August 2010 peak comes early Friday. Emanating from the constellation Perseid, the meteor shower could yield sightings in some locations of up ...
msnbc.com A bright Perseid meteor streaks over buildings at the Stellafane amateur astronomy convention in Springfield, Vt., on Aug. 7. Alan Boyle writes:When the ...
Huffington Post (blog) On the evening of August 12-13 we will be able to see the wondrous Perseid meteor showers, which shoot up to 60 meteors per hour at their peak. ...
WESH Orlando The Seminole State Planetarium is hosting a free event that it said will give residents a front seat to a meteor shower on Thursday night. ...
Newsdurhamregion.com It's the dark of the moon right now, or close to it -- one of the most important factors for a good view of the Perseid meteor showers. ...
Boston Globe By Travis Anderson The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to begin around 10, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said, ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette By Dan Malerbo, Buhl Planetarium and Observatory If you look at the sky long enough on any clear night, you can see a meteor or "shooting star. ...
Herald Zeitung By Bryan Shettig The Herald-Zeitung | 0 comments NEW BRAUNFELS — Comal County residents looking to stargaze tonight should be able to see a meteor shower ...
The Detroit News Later, the fabled Perseid meteor shower will adorn the night with up to 50 shooting stars an hour. That show begins at twilight. • Ex.-Ill. Rep. ...
Viet Nam News HA NOI — One of the prettiest meteor showers of the year was expected to be seen early Friday morning throughout Viet Nam, said Dang Vu Tuan Son head of ...
Reno Gazette-Journal The Perseid meteor shower that shoots across the summer sky each year will be at its most prolific Thursday night and Friday morning, said amateur ...
Ha'aretz By Asaf Shtull-Trauring The Perseids, one of the most striking meteor showers that will take place this the year, will be visible tonight. ...
24/7 Wall St. (blog) This comes annual via the Perseid Meteor Shower that has started over the last weekend. Space.com noted “The peak of this year's Perseids is forecast to ...
DCist.com Last week, we told you to keep an eye out for the Perseid meteor shower. Tonight and tomorrow will be the best nights for this year's show, as up to 50-80 ...
Lie back' and enjoy meteorite shower BBC News Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:03 AM PDT Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock explains how to watch the best meteor shower over the UK in recent memory...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesA Perseid meteor streaks across the sky early August 12, 2008 near Rogers Spring in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. ...
WTOL.com In addition Mid-August provides the Persiad meteor show, the most reliable of the year. To celebrate these the Toledo Astronomical Association will be ...
Washington Post Please verify that your e-mail address is correct. Your e-mail will not be publicly available, but may be used by editors to contact you in the future ...
Prime Writer News Network NASA astronomer Bill Cooke is hosting a live chat during tonight's Perseid Meteor Shower. The NASA chat began at 11:00 pm and will run until 5:00 am Though ...
Damego You can just sit back and relax in front of your computer and watch the meteor shower live on your screen. This live video/audio feed is from the Nasa ...
Christian Science Monitor Researchers will be gathering data during the Perseid meteor shower. August 2010 is part of a renaissance for meteor science in the US after nearly two ...
WSB Atlanta Severe Weather Team 2 Chief Meterologist Glenn Burns says several planets will align with the moon, followed by a very visible meteor shower. ...
Ohio Man Says He Was Hit By Meteorite KSAT San Antonio Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:38 AM PDT An Ohio man claims he was hit in the shoulder by a chunk of meteorite falling from the sky Sunday night. ...
Ohio Man Claims He Was Hit By Meteorite Cleveland Scene Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:08 AM PDT Pat Foraker of Quaker City, Ohio, doesn't believe that a neighbor or a prankster threw a rock at him. He believes that the small rock that struck his shoulder was a meteorite. ...
Washington Post (blog) Tonight is one of the peak nights for the Perseid meteor showers. Skywatch's Blaine Friedlander says that the crescent moon is expected to set at 9:22 pm ...
