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09 April 2010

9APR2010

Astro Cast: 2010 Major Meteor Showers

By AstroCastBlog
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's Midcourse Space Experiment satellite imaged this peak of the 1997 Leonid Meteor Shower from above 29 meteors over a 48 minute period entering the Earth's atmosphere. Image credit: BMDO/APL ...
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Rock's history is out of this world

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Meteor means 'shooting star' or 'falling rock'. A large number of meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere each day amounting to more than a hundred tons of ...