Silliman believed the meteor had a cosmic origin, but meteors did not attract much attention from astronomers until the spectacular meteor storm of November...

meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors...

astronomer and a senior research scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and at NASA Ames Research Center. He is an expert on meteor...

Canada over Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. Astronomers said it was likely to have been a meteor bolide burning up in the atmosphere and descending...

California Gold Rush site, near which some pieces were recovered. Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens assigned Sutter's Mill (SM) numbers to each meteorite...

Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern...

system. Other astronomers doubt the meteor was interstellar, and other experts criticized Siraj and Loeb's method of determining where the meteor might have...

of Swift-Tuttle in 1862, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli discovered the link between meteor showers and comets. The finding is contained...

The Chelyabinsk meteor (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, romanised: Chelyabinskiy meteorit) was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern...

The Quadrantids (QUA) are a meteor shower that peaks in early January and whose radiant lies in the constellation Boötes. The zenithal hourly rate (ZHR)...

Earth As A Fishing Net For These Objects." – Harvard Astronomer Believes An Interstellar Meteor (or Craft) Hit Earth In 2014". Inverse. Retrieved 11 April...

Did an interstellar meteor hit Earth in 2014?". earthsky.org. Retrieved 2 November 2022. Ferreira, Becky. "Alien-Hunting Astronomer Says There May Be a...

three people may have died. The explosion is generally attributed to a meteor air burst, the atmospheric explosion of a stony asteroid about 50–60 metres...

Helios' chariot, Phaethon's discovery was attributed to astronomer Fred Whipple. The meteors in this shower appear to come from the radiant in the constellation...

study of the reports was produced by the Canadian astronomer Clarence Chant, who wrote about the meteors in vol. 7 of the Journal of the Royal Astronomical...

Meteor is a 2009 American disaster television miniseries directed by Ernie Barbarash, written by Alex Greenfield and distributed by RHI Entertainment,...

In the same year, Asian astronomers coincidentally discovered comet C/1490 Y1, a possible progenitor of the Quadrantid meteor showers. At least three...

by American astronomer Robert Burnham, Jr., which he co-discovered alongside Turkmen astronomer, Ivan N. Latyshev, and Swiss astronomer, Paul Wild. The...

have a peak rate of 2 meteors per second (a zenithal hourly rate of 10,000), prompting a Chinese astronomer to compare the meteors to falling rain. The...

2011. "Surprise Meteor Showers: Will They Become as Predictable as Lunar Eclipses?". Space.com, by Peter Jenniskens, Meteor astronomer, Carl Sagan Center...

"150-year-old meteor mystery solved". NBC News. June 2, 2010. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. "Texas State astronomers solve Walt Whitman meteor mystery"...

apparent magnitude of 2.7. The comet was discovered by the Japanese amateur astronomer Kaoru Ikeya on 3 July 1964. It was the second comet discovered by Kaoru...

professional astronomers who are interested in the field of meteor astronomy. Its affiliates observe, monitor, collect data on, study, and report on meteors, meteor...

affected people's night vision. Astronomers have taken to calling these the "Halloween fireballs." During the Southern Taurid meteor shower in 2013, fireball...

Moon, meteors, planets, constellations, and stars. The Moon is a very commonly observed astronomical object, especially by amateur astronomers and skygazers...

Newsweek. July 5, 2023. Retrieved July 25, 2023. "Harvard astronomer believes an interstellar meteor (or craft) smashed into Earth in 2014 — others aren't...

the only comet discovered by French astronomer, Jean Chacornac, and is the parent body of the Eta Eridanids meteor shower. Jean Chacornac made his only...

first editor; a section called "Meteor Notes" was edited by Virginia Geiger starting in 1933. In 1935, The Amateur Astronomer merged into The Sky published...

though scientific research may not be their primary goal, some amateur astronomers make contributions in doing citizen science, such as by monitoring variable...

brighter-than-usual meteor; however, the term generally applies to fireballs reaching an apparent magnitude −4 or brighter. Astronomers tend to use bolide...