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Serpent Mound crater, also known as the Serpent Mound Disturbance, [1] is an eroded meteorite impact crater in Ohio, United States. It lies largely in Adams County, with the northern part mostly in Highland County, except for a small northeast part in Pike County. [2] [3]
A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky at the Mont-Tendre near Montricher in the Jura, north of Geneva, late August 12, 2009. The Perseid meteor shower is sparked every August when the Earth ...
A meteoroid (/ ˈ m iː t i ə r ɔɪ d / MEE-tee-ə-royd) [1] is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) wide. [2] Objects smaller than meteoroids are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust.
The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower with 3200 Phaethon (which is thought to be an Apollo asteroid [4] with a "rock comet" orbit. [5]) being the parent body. [6]Because of this, it would make this shower, along with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet.
The peak of the Orionid meteor shower is Oct. 21, per NASA. This year, NASA's Watch the Skies blog writes that they can be best viewed on the mornings of Sunday, Oct. 20, and Monday, Oct. 21.
The Orionid meteor shower, courtesy of the famed Halley's Comet, is forecast to reach its peak in a matter of days, when it will send a flurry of bright and fast meteors shooting across the night sky.
The Quadrantids (QUA) are a meteor shower that peaks in early January and whose radiant lies in the constellation Boötes.The zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) of this shower can be as high as that of two other reliably rich meteor showers, the Perseids in August and the Geminids in December, [4] yet Quadrantid meteors are not seen as often as those of the two other showers because the time frame of ...
The Geminids meteor shower, one of the most popular annual showers, was expected to peak Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Here's what to know. There was a meteor shower that could be seen ...