Showing posts with label Leonid meteor shower Nov. 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonid meteor shower Nov. 2009. Show all posts

03 November 2009

Meteor/Meteorite News- 3NOV09

EYE ON THE SKY

Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Meteor experts expect this year's Leonid shower to be a wonderful show. Meteor showers occur when Earth moves through debris from a nearby comet. ...

Leonid Meteor Shower Recalled by International Astronomical Union

The Spoof (satire)
Mount Palomar, CA (IPP)- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has issued a recall for the Leonid meteor shower which originally had been scheduled for ...

Heavenly half-storm nears

NewsOK.com
By Wayne Harris-Wyrick Comments 0 This year has been a bit of a bust for meteor showers. For the normally good Perseids, back in August, a third-quarter ...

Week of Nov. 8-14, 2009

Creators Syndicate
And if a body is large enough to survive its plunge through our atmosphere and crash to Earth, it then has a new name: a "meteorite. ...

Meteor shower over Sri Lanka

Daily Mirror
By Yohan Perera The astronomical phenomenon known as Leonids Meteor Shower will be visible in the Sri Lankan skies on November 17 and 18, Sir Arthur C. ...
STAR TRAK

Indiana University
The annual Leonid meteor shower will peak on the night of Nov. 17-18, just one day after new moon. If the weather cooperates, the absence of moonlight will ...

skywatch: Leonid meteor shower, Jupiter

AZ Central.com
Callisto is an icy world, scarred by billions of years of meteor impacts. And Europa holds a liquid ocean beneath its frozen crust. ...
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Red Phone: ufos in South Valley?

Gilroy Dispatch
Red Phone: Dear UFO Watcher, We're not sure what spied, but we're pretty sure it wasn't a comet or meteor. There was a major meteor shower that did come ...
Strong Leonid meteor showers expected Nov. 17

msnbc.com
17 on your calendar, for early that morning a moderate to possibly very strong showing of annual Leonid meteor shower is likely. ...

The Pilot
Awe for creation, pursuit of truth benefits science, pope says

The Pilot
By Carol Glatz Pope Benedict XVI examines a meteorite from Mars while visiting the new headquarters of the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, ...



Don't miss the meteor shower

The Nation
"If the sky is clear, we will see more than 100 meteors streaming down as the clock ticks past midnight," National Astronomical Research Institute of ...