Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 16.11.1997 . ... November . ... November 1997 . ... 1997 1998 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: Leonids - meteor shower . Publications with words: Leonids - meteor shower . ... Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash . ... Geminid Meteor over Monument Valley . ... Leonid over Mono Lake . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

The broad background peak of activity of this year's Leonid meteor shower is expected to occur around dawn on the 17th November. ... It is anticipated that rates will be up to about 50 meteors per hour for a few hours around peak activity, under ideal conditions. ... According to Armagh Observatory astronomer, David Asher, and co-workers, there will be two additional peaks of activity after the broad stream peak. ... Leonid Meteor Pages . The unexpected 2004 Leonid meteor shower - PDF Format . ...

... Articles | ... Forums . ... 230 deg . 49 deg . ... 130 deg . ... More Info . ... 210 deg . ... 168 deg . ... 249 deg . ... 195 deg . ... 271 deg . ... 110 deg . ... 338 deg . ... July 15 . 247 deg . ... 224 deg . ... 340 deg . ... July Phoenicids (PHE) . ... August 10 . 341 deg . ... 339 deg . ... 307 deg . ... 334 deg . ... 335 deg . ... 286 deg . ... 327 deg . ... 262 deg . ... 102 deg . ... 153 deg . ... 117 deg . ... December 2 . ... 123 deg . ... 100 deg . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... 2001 November 19 . A 2001 Leonids Meteor Shower Fireball . Credit: The CONCAM Project , Michigan Tech , Gemini Obs. ... Explanation: The 2001 Leonids Meteor Shower gave quite a show to many parts of the world yesterday during the early morning hours. Many sleepy observers venturing into their own backyards were treated to several bright meteors per minute streaking across the sky. This rate made the 2001 Leonids the most active meteor shower in over three decades . ... About APOD | ...

New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Observing Podcasts . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... How to observe the 2010 Leonid meteor shower . Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich shares tips and tricks for observing the 2010 Leonid meteor shower. ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... It's a Meteor Shower Smaller than grains of sand, meteors vaporize in a bright streak of light as they hit Earth's atmosphere. Meteor showers come from comets, but the sporadic meteors on other nights are mostly asteroid bits. ... Meteor Showers Come From Comets Jupiter Earth Sun Comet Mercury Tips: A bright Moon can wash out meteors, making them hard to see. ... But the comet bits hit Earth's atmosphere so fast, the pieces vaporize in bright streaks -- making a meteor shower! ...

On September 15, 1998, the STScI director, Dr. Steven Beckwith, announced a special observation opportunity to the astronomical community during the Leonid Meteor Shower. During the peak of the Leonid meteor shower on November 17, 1998, HST will be pointed near the anti-radiant for ten hours. Anyone who is interested can submit ideas to STScI for scientific observations during this time. ... There are no HST observations in the archives for objects in this field. ...

... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia . ... 50_Kozlova_Shevchenko.pdf - 212KB . A.A. Berezhnoy (1), O.R. Baransky (2), K.I. Churyumov (2), V.V. Kleshchenok (2), E.A. Kozlova (1), V. Mangano (3), V.O. Ponomarenko (2), Yu.V. Pakhomov (4), V.V. Shevchenko (1), yu. ... Berezhnoy A.A., Kozlova E.A., Shevchenko V.V. в сборнике 36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, серия Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Conference Abstracts, том 36, с. 1061 тезисы . ...

... Impact craters and associated concentric rings are about the only features to be found on Callisto. ... It has a bright central region that is 600 kilometers in diameter, and its rings extend to 3000 kilometers in diameter. ... This image shows the heavily cratered surface of Callisto. ... Also visible is a fresh, sharp-rimmed crater some 90 km (56 miles) across named Igaluk (center left third of picture), and a bright zone in the south polar area (bottom of image) which could be an impact scar. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

... You are here: start €Ё lbaops €Ё lbanov2008 €Ё recentchanges . ... VLBI Schedule . ... Observer's Wiki . ... lbaops:lbanov2008:recentchanges . ... December 04, 2008, at 03:46 PM by ~pge : [==] . ... December 01, 2008, at 03:11 AM by ~guest : [==] . ... November 30, 2008, at 05:07 AM by phillips : [==] . ... November 30, 2008, at 02:55 AM by ~guest : [==] . ... November 29, 2008, at 10:45 PM by ~breid : [==] . ... lbaops/lbanov2008/recentchanges.txt €§ Last modified: 2015/12/18 16:38 (external edit) ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... 2015 - 2016 . ... Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton University . ... December 8, 2015 . ... November 10, 2015 . ... University of the Sciences in Philadelphia author . ... Amateur Astronomer . ... 2014 - 2015 . ... June 9, 2015 . ... Digital Planetarium and the 2012 Transit of Venus from Hawaii . 2013 - 2014 . ... International Occultation Timing Association . ... 2012 - 2013 . ... 2011 - 2012 . ... Princeton University . ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... The NSFnet backbone supports Internet connectivity to this site and hopefully the delivery of real data in quasi-real time demonstrates the power of the Internet today. ... Last Images of Comet prior to first Impact . ... Fragment A . KPNO Image taken near Fragment B Impact time . ... Well besides weighing a lot and being cold all the time, here is some animation to show you what the impact events might look like if you were riding one of the fragments . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Star Clusters . ... Usage of ESO Images and Videos . ... Subtitles and translations for ESO videos . ... Stars@ESO . ... Planetarium shows . ... The second installment of Chile Chill, a type of ESOcast designed to offer a calm experience of the Chilean night sky, depicts the December 2012 Geminid meteor shower as it makes a spectacular appearance over ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. ... Geminids meteor shower , Very Large Telescope ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Good astronomy : Meteors don't rise. ... You can see many meteors on pretty much any clear night. ... On some nights you can see many many more meteors. During a meteor shower, like the Perseid shower which peaks around August 13 every year, you can see as many as 60 or more an hour. ... Even more, the meteor is slowed down so strongly as it moves through the atmosphere that the impact speed is typically only a few hundred kilometers an hour at most. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...

Here are some World Wide Web links which are related to those topics found in Chapter Five: . The Nine Planets . The Solar System . Comprehensive lists of planet facts . Up to date representation of the solar system . Ringed planets . ... NASA`s solar system exploration site . The Voyager Spacecraft . The Galileo Spacecraft . The Magellan Spacecraft . Spacecraft Images . New planet around 51 Pegasus . ... Back to Chapter Five ...