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This list of meteor streams and peak activity times is based on data from the International Meteor Organization while most of the parent body associations are from Gary W. Kronk book, Meteor Showers: A Descriptive Catalog, Enslow Publishers, New Jersey, ISBN 0-89490-071-4, and from Peter Jenniskens's book, "Meteor Showers and Their Parent ...
Dec. 21-22: Ursid meteor shower is visible in the Northern Hemisphere as the radiant is too far north of the equator for good viewing in the Southern Hemisphere. Solar and lunar eclipses 2024 schedule
The Leonid meteor shower will peak on the evening of November 17-18 at approximately midnight. It is best to go to the "darkest possible location, and wait about 30 minutes for your eyes to adjust ...
The official meteor shower lasts from Sept. 22 to Nov. 22., but the shower's peak will be this weekend. The meteor shower is expected to peak on Sunday, Oct. 20 and Monday, Oct. 21.
The Perseid meteor shower peaked in the night skies of Sunday into Monday, giving astronomy fans one of the best shows of 2024 as they looked to the skies.
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024, all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors.
The Alpha Centaurids are a meteor shower in the constellation Centaurus, peaking in early February each year. The average magnitude is around 2.5, with a peak of about three meteors an hour. [2] They have been observed since 1969, with a single possible recorded observation in 1938. [3]
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