... He has organized dozens of public sky-watching events of phenomena such as eclipses and meteor showers, bringing the excitement of observing the heavens to still more students and members of the general public. ...
... with the air vaporizes them; as they burn up, we see their quick fiery trails as meteors (sometimes called "shooting stars ... site, a crater about a kilometer across (such as the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona) can be eroded beyond recognition in a ...
... of Six Events -- Edna DeVore E11 Great Balls of Fire: A National Traveling Exhibition About Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors -- Paul Dusenbery E12 Future Research in Interactive Planetariums -- Alice Enevoldsen E13 NASA SMD Earth and Space Science Education ...
... Coinciding with the Perseid meteor shower the weekend of August 10 & 11, Lassen Volcanic National Park (east of Redding, CA ... activities and interactive demos for participating families, with themes revolving around comets, meteors, and impacts ...
... 3.13 The Scale of the Solar System 3.14 Comets, Asteroids and Meteors 3.15 Observing Meteors 3.16 Star Finding and Constellations 3.17 The Sun as a Star 3.18 The Lives of Stars The Universe at Your Fingertips · Astronomical Society of the Pacific Page 1 ...
... Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers ... meteor storm chaser, explains how meteoroid streams originate from the decay of ... and asteroids, the risk of meteor impacts on Earth, and how meteor showers may have ...