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The Lyrids meteor shower peaks next week: When and how to best view the shooting stars
In the coming days, there will be an exciting reason to gaze up at the sky: the Lyrids meteor shower. Formed out of remaining particles from Comet Thatcher, the Lyrids meteor shower is visible every April as Earth passes through the trail of debris. This spring, it’s taking place from April 17 to 26.
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When is the Next Meteor Shower? Lyrids and Eta Aquariids coming this springAccording to the American Meteor Society, Eta Aquarid meteors travel at about 40.7 miles (65.4 kilometers) per second ...
Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...
Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance ...
NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...
"Asteroids come in all sizes," says Michael Küppers ... Getty Images Eros became the first near-Earth asteroid to be discovered when a German astronomer spotted it in 1898 (Credit: Getty Images ...
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Origins of Water on Earth May Not Have Started with an Asteroid ImpactThe chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...
Meteor showers are the result of comet debris that remains behind. When Earth passes through this dust, the particles ...
On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...
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