Field Museum scientists in Chicago studying Michigan meteor
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are studying a piece of the meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan.
Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are studying a piece of the meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan.
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The weak display of last month's Camelopardalids meteor shower, the result of the close passage of comet 209P/LINEAR, may have disappointed backyard observers, but this never-before-seen shower now has scientists excited. ...
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(Phys.org) —The Man in the Moon appeared when meteoroids struck the Earth-facing side of the moon creating large flat seas of basalt that we see as dark areas called maria. But no "face" exists on farside of the moon and ...
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Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular fireball show early next week when Earth hits a belt of comet debris known as the Perseids, astronomers say.
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