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The sky's not falling: Guam's mystery fireball linked to satellite test launch

Jacob Oller

Apr 10, 2020

Guam fireball screenshot

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Amazing photo of the Quadrantid meteor shower… from space!

Phil Plait

Jan 17, 2020

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Meteor Showers

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Meteor Showers

Will the Unicorn give us a meteor storm on November 22?

Phil Plait

Nov 11, 2019

Three Geminid meteors from the 2012 shower. Credit: John Chumack

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Meteor Showers

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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Could larger space rocks be hiding in the Beta Taurid meteor stream? We may find out this summer.

Phil Plait

May 14, 2019

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Watch two meteorites hit the Moon

Phil Plait

Jul 31, 2018

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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