The Taurids are commonly known as the Halloween Fireballs for their yearly October and November activity. The meteor shower is the result of remnants from the the Comet Encke. This year the best viewing date will be November 5th and are part of the Southern Taurids Stream (November 12 Is the Peak of The Northern [...]
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Do Meteors Make a Sound?
Some of you may or may not remember the comic strip Flash Gordon or even the 1980 film when Ming the Merciless uses meteors to attack the Earth. Those meteors make a sound, right? So meteors you see in the sky make a sound too. No that’s Hollywood. So this article ends here, right? Well [...]
Orionids Meteor Shower of 2008 Has a Sidekick
The Meteor Shower the ε-Geminids is taking place alongside the Orionids Meteor Shower of 2008 as it does every year. The ε-Geminids are scheduled to peak on October 18th however they have already started their display on October 14th. The ε-Geminids is considered a minor meteor shower because it does not produce the brightest results [...]
Car Sized Meteor Falls toward Earth
As American Automobile Manufacturer’s stock prices nosedive on Monday October 6th, ironically a car size meteor tumbles toward the Earth over a countryside quarter of Sudan on the same day. Once the meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere it created a huge fireball that had the equivalent explosion force of over a kiloton of TNT. The meteor [...]
