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It is important to stress again that at the outset that any suggestion of a spectacular meteor Leonid display this year is, to put it mildly, overly optimistic. Unless the Leonid meteor shower provides an unexpectedly rich shower at its maximum on Sunday morning (Nov. 17), this year’s display will be ruined by the moon, […]
The supposed interstellar fireball detected over the Pacific Ocean in 2014 probably came from within our solar system, according to new statistical modeling of the meteor and others similar to it. The new study also concludes that debris from the fireball would not have survived passage through Earth’s atmosphere, meaning that the claimed recovery of […]