The Geminid meteor shower peaks on December 13 and 14, 2011 with the light show usually visible after 9-10 pm. The best viewing this year will be after midnight on Dec 14 and 15 due to the brightness of the moon. Due to the moon’s interference, viewers may not see the average 50 or more [...]
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Look up! Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks December 14-15, 2011
December 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Astronomy, Cool Science, Science, STEM
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Don't Forget to Look Up This Weekend! – Oct 21-23, 2011
October 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Astronomy, Science, STEM
(from our friends at OMSI) Busy weekend ahead up in the sky with the peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower tonight and the ROSAT re–entry sometime on October 23. Another Falling Satellite The massive ROSAT X-ray space telescope is making its final spiralling orbits around Earth. Most experts agree that re-entry will occur during the [...]
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Don’t Forget to Look Up This Weekend! – Oct 21-23, 2011
October 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Astronomy, Science, STEM
(from our friends at OMSI) Busy weekend ahead up in the sky with the peak of the Orionid Meteor Shower tonight and the ROSAT re–entry sometime on October 23. Another Falling Satellite The massive ROSAT X-ray space telescope is making its final spiralling orbits around Earth. Most experts agree that re-entry will occur during the [...]
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The best meteor shower of 2007 peaks on Night of December 13th-14th
December 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Astronomy, Cool Science, NASA, Science
What promises to be the year’s most spectacular metero shower, the Geminids, will occur the night of December 13th-14th! “It’s the Geminid meteor shower,” says NASA astronomer Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center. “Start watching on Thursday evening, Dec. 13th, around 10 pm local time,” he advises. “At first you might not see [...]
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New Projections For The Aurgid Meteor Shower On September 1, 2007
August 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Astronomy, OMSI, Science
From our friends at the OMSI Planetarium: The peak of the Aurigid Meteor Shower is forecast for Saturday, September 1 around 4:30 am PDT. The calculations indicate Earth is about to cross the dust trail of comet Kiess, a comet that takes some 2000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun. The trail is [...]
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