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It's #meteor August. We reveal the inner beauty of our largest #meteorite with @TimCosmos @BristolUni #PerseidMeteorShower #MineralMonday https://t.co/1oOzoyJLaQ

It's #meteor month August. Check out how we revealed the in beauty of our largest #meteorite @BristolUni #PerseidMeteorShower #MineralMonday https://t.co/1oOzoyJLaQ

#Orionid #Meteor Shower continues over the next 4 nights, fragments of #Halley’sComet, producing up to 20 meteors per hour. #FairbanksNightOwl #stargazing #nightsky #astronomy http://ow.ly/3xIn50BIGDM

#Orionid #Meteor Shower continues over the next 4 nights, fragments of #Halley’sComet, producing up to 20 meteors per hour. #FairbanksNightOwl #stargazing #nightsky #astronomy http://ow.ly/3xIn50BIGDM

Unser neuer Touchscreen in der der Ausstellung Meteoriten-Show zeigt die wichtigsten Meteoriten Ereignisse der Geschichte. Viel Spass beim Erkunden! #meteoriten #sauriermuseumaathal #zürichtourismus #meteor #universum #ausstellung #museum #mussmangesehenhaben #Sauriermuseum #Dinosaurier

#MeteoriteMonday Meteors often fall to earth, but often burn up in the earth’s atmosphere before landing, and are what are commonly called ‘shooting stars.’. Those shooting stars that do survive falling through the atmosphere are called meteorites. This is a fragment of a LL6 chondrite meteorite - the LL means Low (total) iron and Low metal. The 6 is a class of chondrite meteorites that has been metamorphosed from thermal activity. Chondrites are quite old - most dating back... to the formation of the solar system over 4 billion years ago. Chondrites in general are stony meteorites - stony, as opposed to metallic - that possess little spherical elements, called chondrules - and have not undergone any sort of melting or differentiation - processes involved in the evolution of early planets. This indicates that chondrites have been non-metallic ‘space rocks’ since the beginning of the solar system, without accreting into large planet or planetesimal size bodies. Similar nonmetallic meteorites that lack chondrules - called achondrites - include chunks of the moon and Mars that we have geochemically matched to their source - blasted off into space by earlier impacts, and eventually making the journey to be captured by earth’s atmosphere. Similarly, Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard collected a 20 lb sample he called Big Bertha while on the moon - now understood to be a meteorite derived from Earth that landed on the moon! This particular fragment is from the Cherokee Springs Meteorite, a 12 pound meteorite that fell near Spartanburg, South Carolina on July 1st, 1933! This was graciously donated by Yinan Wang. #solarsystem #meteor #meteorite #chondrite #shootingstar #stonymeteorite #donation

The most amazing meteor shower of the year is this weekend. This year is going to be really special due to lower air pollution levels and the fact that the light from a sliver of the moon will not disturb our observations. The night sky will be dancing from 13th to 15th December with its peak on 14th early morning at 2:00 am IST. Light pollution is the biggest killer of any night sky observations. Visit lightpollutionmap.info to find the best viewing site near you. You shoul...d aim for a place that's a class 2 or class 3 on the Bortle scale. Head out there for the best meteor shower experience. But please be safe by assessing the conditions of the site and the surroundings beforehand. Please note that the threat of the pandemic is still very real so avoid big groups and gatherings and adhere to local safety and curfew guidelines. Nights get very cold so please dress warm and take precautions and dress adequately. Carry water and snacks with you as well as some mosquito repellent to protect yourself. Carry a traditional torch with red light. In case you don't have a red light torch, carry a normal torch with some red gelatine paper and some rubber bands. Once you are there, look up in the sky and find the constellation Gemini. It's just above the club of Orion. To identify the constellation, you can use a sky tracking app on your phone in night mode. Sky view lite or sky map are great apps for this. The constellation will be at the zenith at around 2am. That's where the meteor shower well originate from. You don't need any special equipment to observe a meteor shower. Just patience. In a good spot you'll be able to see about 120 meteors in an hour. You can also submit your observations, photos, videos, etc. on www.imo.net which helps the organization to study various aspects of the meteors and Earth's orbit. Really great submissions get featured on their website with due credits given to you. Enjoy this heavenly show. Be safe. Take care. Do share your photos #meteor #meteorshower #astronomy #showinthesky #geminidmeteorshower #geminids #spacescienceforall #spacefacts #wednesdayinfopost #wednesdaywisdom #nightsky #nightphotography #night #nightout

December brings the Geminid meteor shower. It's by far the best viewing spectacle in most parts of India as the weather is cool and the skies are clear. The Geminid meteor shower will peak just past midnight on Sunday, 13th December 2020. Why do meteor showers occur?... How many showers can one see on a year? How to get the best experience of a meteor shower? On popular demand we are doing a free webinar tomorrow 8th December at 7:30 pm on zoom. https://zoom.us//regi/tJwocu-vrT8rHdF3EGav2OI7spse-w7AVZIY Join us to know the best places and practices for observing a meteor shower from our NASA fellow, astronomer, astrophysicist @spacevikram #meteor #meteorshower #spacescienceforall #astronomy #starrynight #stargazing #showinthesky #geminidmeteorshower #freewebinar #zoom #natskiesforyou #natskiesobservatory #keeplearning #keepexploring #decembergoals