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    NASA Cameras Catch Speeding Fireball

    There was a bright fireball visible over north Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and South Carolina at 7:02:36 PM EST last night. All 4 NASA meteor cameras in the SouthEast picked it up 48 miles above the town of Rossville, just south of Chattanooga, moving at 9 miles per second (32,400 mph) slightly north of east. The …

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    Asteroid 433 Eros Approaches Earth

    Credit:  NASA/MSFC/Meteoroid Environment Office/Rhiannon Blaauw Asteroid 433 Eros made a close approach to Earth the morning of January 31st coming within 0.17 AU (15 million miles) of our planet. In this set of images taken that morning, the bright moving dot near the center of the field is the 21 mile long Eros. Somewhere on …

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    NASA All Sky Fireball Network Watches the Skies

    A meteor streaks across the skies above Huntsville, Ala. (NASA) The night sky is constantly changing. The Earth rotates and revolves about the sun, creating a backdrop of stars that is always in motion. The moon grows large in the sky, and then smaller again, in a seemingly endless cycle. Now and then, brilliant streaks …

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    Rare Double Quadrantid Meteor Sighting

    The wide-field meteor camera at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center recorded these two simultaneous Quadrantid meteors on Jan. 4 at approximately 5 a.m. EST. Moving at 92,000 mph, the meteors flashed across the field of view in just over a second. Credits: NASA/MSFC/Meteoroid Environments Office

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    Slow-Moving Meteor Paints the Night Skies

    Early on the morning of Jan. 3, 2012, a beautiful meteor was seen traveling across the skies over Huntsville, Ala. Moving slowly at “only” 18.9 km/s — or 42,000 mph — the meteor was recorded at approximately 10:34:16 UTC in an allsky camera at the Marshall Space Flight Center. It started 88.5 km/55 miles up and was last detected at 79.8 km/50 miles up. The meteor had …

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    Geminid Over Las Cruces

    Hazy skies did little to dim the brightness of this Gemind meteor, which graced the skies over southern New Mexico on the night of Dec. 14 around 7:28 p.m. MST. Moving at 80,000 mph, the 3/4 inch meteor — a piece of the asteroid 3200 Phaethon — flared brighter than the planet Venus before burning …

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    Geminid Meteor Shower

    Clouds hampered our viewing of the Geminid meteor shower peak last night. However, we managed to capture a few images before viewing was obscured.

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    A Shadow on the Moon

    The next full moon is known as the Cold Moon, the Long Night Moon, or the Moon Before Yule. The moon will be “opposite” the sun at 9:38 a.m. EST on Saturday, Dec. 10. The moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from the evening of Thursday, Dec. 8 through the …

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    73X Faster Than a Speeding Bullet!

    On the night of Nov. 17, 2011, NASA cameras captured two super-fast views of Leonid meteors. The first video below shows a Leonid from a NASA camera operated in Tullahoma, Tenn. Moving 73 times faster than a bullet fired from an M-16 rifle, the three-quarter inch meteor first started to burn up 71 miles above …

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    Leonids Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight!

    <DIV The moon is going to be major interference, but we could see a rate about 20 per hour,? said Bill Cooke, Lead of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA?s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.The annual Leonid meteor shower is expected to reach peak activity tonight, November 17, at about 10:40 p.m. EST....

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