Meteor Showers

A composite photo (made up of several individual pictures) of Quadrantid meteors burning up over Earth, taken from the International Space Station on 4 January, 2020. The green glow of the aurora borealis is seen to the north. Credit: NASA
Amazing photo of the Quadrantid meteor shower… from space!
Phil Plait
Jan 17, 2020
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Fireworks for the New Year: The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks tomorrow!
Phil Plait
Jan 2, 2020
The orbit of the Quadrantid meteoroids takes them from as far as Jupiter’s orbit (orange) to Earth (blue), moving nearly perpendicular to Earth’s path around the Sun. We intersect this debris trail every January, so we get a meteor shower at that time. Cr
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Will the Unicorn give us a meteor storm on November 22?
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Nov 11, 2019
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Three Geminid meteors from the 2012 shower. Credit: John Chumack
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Could larger space rocks be hiding in the Beta Taurid meteor stream? We may find out this summer.
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May 14, 2019
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A meteor shower — in theis case, the Perseids — is usually composed of small bits material sloughed off a comet that burn up in our atmosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL
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Watch two meteorites hit the Moon
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Jul 31, 2018
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An impact from a small meteoroid lights up the moonscape. Credit: Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System (MIDAS)/Jose Maria Madiedo
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