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The peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower will be tomorrow on the night of October 21/22, 2010. However, despite the fact that peak doesn't occur until tomorrow ...
Orionids Meteor Shower This Weekend – 20 & 21 October 2010 ...
The Orionid meteor shower is due to peak this weekend, 20 & 21 October 2010. To view it properly, it is best to go out into the countryside, where the sky ...
Skywatchers prepare for Comet Hartley, Orionids meteor showers
WKYC-TV
CLEVELAND -- Early morning autumn skies are bringing fantastic celestial displays from the heavens with this year's annual Orionids meteor showers. ...
The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award
Guardian Unlimited Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:58 AM PDT
Nominate your favourite museum and get a free Quentin Blake poster! Perhaps it was the notice by the meteorite, saying: "This is the oldest object you will ever touch." Or your toddler being invited to roar at a ruff-collared ducal portrait in the 17th-century gallery to show an early appreciation of art. Or the quiet chat about war-time childhood between a grandparent and child over a 1940s ...
Spacing Out
KTSM News Channel 9
"I knew it wasn't meteorites when I first saw them. And nothing suspends in air like that anyway if it was a meteorite. Meteorites always leave a ...
More from meteor witness
Bombala Times
IT has been a few weeks since we last had news of the search for the meteorite that landed in the local district in August, but the Bombala Times has now ...
Meteor Shower this Week
allvoices
A harvest moon is scheduled for the week which impede some of the meteor spectacular. Meteor showers, called Orionids, due to the fact that they appear to ...
Grimsby meteorite update.
CKTB
Meteorites have been recovered in the Grimsby area. Phil McCausland from Western University says they came from the asteroid belt. ...
The Comet Cometh: Hartley 2 Visible in Night Sky
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Backyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only the fifth in history to be imaged close up. Comet Hartley 2 will come within 17.7 million kilometers (11 million miles) of Earth this Wed., Oct. 20 at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT). NASA's EPOXI mission will come within 700 kilometers (435 miles) of Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. ...
Trojan Asteroid Found in Neptune's Trailing Gravitational Stability Zone
There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable. These places are called Lagrangian points.
So-called Trojan asteroids have been found in some of these stable spots near Jupiter and Neptune. Trojans share their planet's orbit and help astronomers understand how the planets formed and how the solar system evolved. Now Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie ...
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