29 April 2013

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 29APR2013

Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks On Sunday May 5 2013
PlanetSave.com
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will be peaking next Sunday, May 5, 2013. though the nights preceding and for a few days afterwards will be good for watching also. In fact, the Eta Aquarids have actually already begun, if you were to go out tonight you ...

Cassini-Huygens Shows Saturn's Rings Hit By Meteor Showers - iTechPost
iTech Post
Researchers used Cassini-Huygens to detect meteor impacts in 2005, 2009 and 2012. 2009 was the best year because of the angle of the sun, which caused the debris clouds to appear brighter. The meteors that impact Saturn range in size from a half inch...

Meteor shower to peak May 6
Enid News & Eagle
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will peak on the morning of May 6, and it looks favorable this year. This shower's radiant, in the little Y-shaped water urn asterism of Aquarius, rises in twilight only an hour or two before dawn at mid-northern ...

NASA's Cassini Reveals Evidence of Meteors Crashing into Saturn's Rings
IBTimes India
The latest observations of meteors hitting Saturn's majestic rings makes the planet's rings the only location besides Earth, moon and Jupiter where scientists have been able to observe the impact of meteor strike. By studying the impact rate of ...

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