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Mesmerizing Pictures From The Perseid Meteor Shower
The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked on August 11 and 12 as Earth passed through a stream of debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. During the Perseids, as many as 100 meteors each hour enter Earth's...
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Ancient Egyptians Made Jewelry From Meteorites
Ancient Egyptian beads found in a 5,000-year-old tomb were made from iron meteorites that fell to Earth from space, according to a new study.The beads, which are the oldest known iron artifacts in the...
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This stunning time-lapse video of the Perseid meteor shower was shot by Vimeo user Michael Chung, near Victorville, Calif.He was lucky enough to catch what's called a persistent train after a meteor...
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A Massive Chunk Of What Might Be 'The Russian Meteorite' Was Just Pulled From...
On Wednesday, Russian divers recovered from a frozen lake the largest-known chunk of what's believed to be from the meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsky in February.The tiny...
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Stunning New Details From The Largest Asteroid Impact In A Century
New details about the origin, structure, and impact of the meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 13, 2013, are reported in three separate papers published Wednesday.Thanks...
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How To Watch The Best Meteor Shower Of The Year Tonight Online
One of the best meteor showers of the year is set to put on a performance tonight (Dec. 13), but if you can't catch the cosmic display in person, you can watch it live online.The Geminid meteor shower—...
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Meet The Meteorite Man Who Sells Ancient Space Rocks
What’s the oldest thing you’ve ever held in your hand? A piece of petrified wood? A fossilized trilobite? A chunk of glacier-carved granite? Those are some pretty old things, sure, but there are even...
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CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Car-Size Meteorite Crashes Into Moon And Creates The...
On Sept. 11, 2013, Spanish telescopes recorded a massive meteorite crashing into the moon, creating the longest and brightest lunar flash ever seen, researchers reported Sunday in the journal Monthly...
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Researchers Pinpoint Exactly Where On The Red Planet Martian Meteorites Came...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - About 5 million years ago, an asteroid or comet slammed into Mars so hard that rocks and other debris launched into space.After traveling millions of years, some...
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Amazing Video Shows Meteorite Nearly Hitting A Skydiver During Jump
An amazing new video posted to YouTube this week purports to show a meteorite hurling dangerously close to a skydiver in Norway.The astounding improbability of this close encounter warrants skepticism,...
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Crazy Video Footage Shows Possible Meteor Flying Over Russia
A possible meteor exploded over the Russian city of Murmansk early Saturday morning, around 2:10 a.m. local time. The bluish flash was captured by several drivers with dashcams. In the video below, you...
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The Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks This Morning
The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks this year on the morning of Tuesday, April 22 (also Earth Day).It should also be visible for the rest of the week.The shower happens as Earth passes through a...
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How To Watch The Meteor Shower Created By Halley's Comet Tonight
The annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower will peak on Monday night through the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 6.The Eta Aquarid happens every May as Earth passes through a string of space debris,...
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A Brand-New Meteor Shower Could Be Spectacular Tonight — Here's How To Watch
A new meteor shower called May Camelopardalis is expected to peak in the early-morning hours on Saturday, May 24, with some forecasters predicting more than 200 meteors every hour.The shower, which...
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This Meteor Shower Timelapse Looks Like A Real-Life Version Of 'Starry Night'
The new project by Aspen-based photographer Thomas O'Brien, simply titled Meteor, is making our minds melt and simultaneously reinforcing the now-classic True Detective line: "It's all one ghetto, man....
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Investors Are Betting A Meteor Won't Destroy America
The search for yield has taken investors into the nether regions of the solar system.Last month, according to Artemis, a group that tracks catastrophe bonds, insurer USAA took out a policy against the...
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Curiosity Just Stumbled Across A Huge Iron Meteorite On Mars
Meet Lebanon, an iron meteorite that NASA's Curiosity rover ran into on its 640th sol (Martian day) on Mars. Back here on Earth, it was May 25, 2014.It's not clear why Curiosity's engineers named this...
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Meteorite Strikes Nicaraguan Capital, Creates 16-Foot-Deep Crater
A loud boom heard Saturday night by residents of Nicaragua's capital Managua was caused by the impact of small meteorite, government officials confirmed on Sunday.The piece of rock, possibly from an...
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Experts Don't Think That The Mystery Crater That Appeared In Nicaragua Is...
Nicaraguan officials say a meteorite gouged out a crater near the nation's capital city over the weekend, but scientists aren't so sure.A committee formed by the Nicaraguan government determined that a...
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Giant Fireball Spotted Over Eastern US
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A blazing meteor lit up the night sky like fireworks across a dozen eastern US states and prompted more than 200 sighting reports, the American Meteor Society said on Monday.The...
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