| Orionid Meteor Shower: The Most Anticipated Show Every Year International Business Times AU By Karen Mae Cordon | October 18, 2011 1:52 PM EST The Orionid meteor shower 2011 will be seen on Friday, the dawn of October 21. So if you want to catch themeteor shower, you can either sleep early to wake up at dawn or not to sleep at all. ... |
| CSI-style investigation of meteorite hits on Earth 24dash (press release) Meteorite impact ejecta (left) compared with volcanic deposits (right) showing closely similar structures made of dust particles. Top 2 photos show accretionary lapilli in density current deposits, whereas bottom 2 photos show pellets that formed when ... |
A wide field meteor camera at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center recorded this spectacularmeteor breaking up in Earth's atmosphere.
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Caltech researchers take the temperature of Mars' past
Astronomy Magazine
By California Institute of Technology, Pasadena — Published: October 17, 2011 The meteoritecalled ALH84001 is sliced to show its interior. Found in the Allan Hills ice field in Antarctica in 1984, the 4-billion-year-old rock is one of the oldest in ...
2011 Orionid meteor shower, from Halley's Comet, peaks October 21
Examiner.com
The 2011 Orionid meteor shower will peak at about 5 pm EDT on Friday October 21. The Orionidmeteor shower usually has a peak rate of about 20-25 meteors per hour. Meteors are best observed between midnight and dawn, so meteor observers can expect to ...
| Halley's Comet to Put on Meteor Show Next Week LiveScience.com If you step outside before dawn during the next week or so, you might try to catch a view of some "cosmic litter" that has been left behind in space by Halley's Comet: the Orionid meteor shower. The Orionids can best be described as a junior version of ... |
Discover Magazine (blog)
Worse than that, there were no meteor showers reported that day or night. Comets are basically giant snowballs peppered with dust and gravel. Every time they get near the Sun, some of that ice sublimates (turns from a solid into a gas), ...
Meteor shower peaks this weekend, visible now before dawn
KOLD-TV
AP Entertainment News Video By Erin Jordan - bio | email TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - A meteor shower is already visible in the early morning skies and will peak this weekend. The Orionid meteor shower originates near the club of the Orion the Hunter ...
