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Keywords: Big Dipper, meteor, Geminids
![Метеоры над горами Четырех Девушек](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/13/0001372573/Perseids4GirlMt_Wu_960.preview.jpg)
13.12.2016
On some nights it rains meteors. Peaking over the next two nights, asteroid dust is expected to rain down on Earth during the annual Geminids meteor shower. This year, unfortunately, fainter Geminids will be harder to see because of the brightness of the Long Nights Full Moon, which occurs Wednesday.
![Ночь Персеид](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/08/13/0001387858/2016_08_06_Perseids_1310pxHoralek.preview.jpg)
10.08.2017
This weekend, meteors will rain down near the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. Normally bright and colorful, the Perseid shower meteors are produced by dust swept up by planet Earth from the orbit of Comet Swift-Tuttle. They streak from a radiant in Perseus, above the horizon in clear predawn skies.
![Вид из замка](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/04/07/0001379723/MVC1000vetter.preview.jpg)
7.04.2017
The best known asterism in northern skies, The Big Dipper is easy to recognize, even when viewed upside down, though some might see a plough or wagon. The star names and the familiar outlines...
![Метеор и Млечный Путь над Альпами](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/01/15/0001454478/MeteorMountain_Roemmelt_960.preview.jpg)
14.01.2019
Now this was a view with a thrill. From Mount Tschirgant in the Alps, you can see not only nearby towns and distant Tyrolean peaks, but also, weather permitting, stars, nebulas, and the band of the Milky Way Galaxy.
![Метеоры, комета и Большой Ковш над Ла-Пальмой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/04/23/0001467333/Quadrantids_Duparc_960.preview.jpg)
23.04.2019
Meteor showers are caused by streams of solid particles, dust size and larger, moving as a group through space. In most cases, the orbits of these meteor streams can be identified with dust expelled from a comet.
![Внутри метеоритного кратера Бэрринджер](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/08/11/0001235793/barringer_rowell.preview.jpg)
11.08.2009
What happens when a meteor hits the ground? Usually nothing much, as most meteors are small, and indentations they make are soon eroded away. About 50,000 years ago, however, a large meteor created Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA. Also known simply as Meteor Crater, the resulting impact basin spans over a kilometer.
![Кратер Бэрринджер на Земле](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/08/18/0001192421/azcrater_lpi_big.preview.jpg)
17.11.1997
What happens when a meteor hits the ground? Usually nothing much, as most meteors are small, and indentations they make are soon eroded away. 49,000 years ago, however, a large meteor created Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, pictured above. Barringer is over a kilometer across.
![Замок и метеор в лунном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/08/13/0001253261/per_110812_ladanyi_1000c.preview.jpg)
13.08.2011
Each August, as planet Earth swings through dust trailing along the orbit of periodic comet Swift-Tuttle, skygazers enjoy the Perseid Meteor Shower. As Earth moves through the denser part of the comet's wide...
![Метеор и галактика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/08/23/0001906880/M31Perseid_Pedrero_1080.preview.jpg)
23.08.2023
It came from outer space. It -- in this case a sand-sized bit of a comet nucleus -- was likely ejected many years ago from Sun-orbiting Comet Swift-Tuttle, but then continued to orbit the Sun alone.
![Болид над Исландией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/09/17/0001908658/_DSC7280-1s_1024.preview.jpg)
16.09.2023
On September 12, from a location just south of the Arctic Circle, stones of Iceland's modern Arctic Henge point skyward in this startling scene. Entertaining an intrepid group of aurora hunters during a geomagnetic storm, alluring northern lights dance across the darkened sky when a stunning fireball meteor explodes.
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