An meteor breaking apart as it entered the atmosphere above the U.K. might be the most well documented fireball meteor ever seen. Source: https://www.livescience.com/fireball-meteor-spotted-uk.html
Tag: meteor
Lumpy, 30-pound meteorite that crashed in Sweden recovered in local village
Two meteor enthusiasts have found a piece of an iron meteorite that fell over Sweden in November 2020. Source: https://www.livescience.com/iron-meteorite-recovered-sweden.html
Juno just saw a spacerock crash into Jupiter
Timing is extraordinarily important in many aspects of astronomy. If an astronomer or their instrument is looking the wrong way at the wrong time, they could miss something spectacular. Alternatively, there are moments when our instruments capture something unexpected in regions of space that we were searching for something else. That is exactly what happened recently when a team of scientists,…
Juno spacecraft spots meteor fireball lighting up Jupiter’s skies
NASA’s Juno probe, currently circling Jupiter, has spotted what appears to be the fiery blast of a meteoroid plunging into the planet Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268199-juno-spacecraft-spots-meteor-fireball-lighting-up-jupiters-skies/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Here’s how NASA will safely land a $2.7 billion rhino-sized rover in a dangerous Martian crater
When NASA’s $2.7 billion Perseverance rover plunges like a meteor into the Martian atmosphere on Thursday (Feb. 18), it will put on a show unlike any before in the five-decade history of Red Planet exploration. Source: https://www.livescience.com/perseverance-landing-sequence.html
Anniversary of mysterious parade of meteors
On February 9, 1913, lucky observers witnessed the Great Meteor Procession, when bright meteors soared horizontally across the sky in a stately marching rank for minutes at a time. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/this-date-in-science-great-meteor-procession-of-february-9-1913…
What’s the difference between asteroids and comets?
Asteroids and comets are generally composed of different materials and reside in different locations of the solar system, while some rare objects display characteristics of both. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/whats-the-difference-between-comets-and-asteroids…
A Colorful Quadrantid Meteor
Meteors can be colorful. Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
What is the Sickle in Leo?
The Sickle in Leo is an easy-to-spot backward question mark shape made of stars that marks the head and shoulders of the constellation of the lion. The moon sometimes passes in front of the Sickle’s brightest star, Regulus. Source: https://earthsky.org/favorite-star-patterns/the-sickle-backward-question-mark-pattern-in-leo…
Remote Control review: Fusing Ghanaian stories with a sci-fi thriller
Nnedi Okorafor’s Remote Control mixes West African folk tales with a sci-fi mystery in a futuristic version of Ghana, as a young girl finds a meteor and gains a deadly power Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933180-500-remote-control-review-fusing-ghanaian-stories-with-a-sci-fi-thriller/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…