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• View the Leonids Nov 17, 2009

  
  Stars Over Washington — Authority: 129
  Space Weather News for Nov 16, 2009 LEONID METEOR SHOWER: The Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov 17, with a new Moon providing ideally-dark viewing conditions. Forecasters expect a relatively mild display (20 to 30 meteors per hour) over North America followed by a much stronger outburst (100 to 300 per ...
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• Best places to see the night sky

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Galloway Forest Park in Scotland has been lauded for its glorious clear skies. Where else can stargazers go?
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• Celestia [del.icio.us]

  
  Imran Ali — Authority: 134
  
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• Leonid Meteor Shower To Be Witnessed On November 17

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  By Meena KarNov.16, (THAINDIAN NEWS) November is expected to turn to be a great month for the sky-gazers, especially for the people who love to see meteor shooting in the night sky. Latest reports related to the Leonid meteor showers state that this year, people living in the United States will get to see this [...]
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• Wish upon a shooting star...meteor shower peaks tonight

  
  KOLD Climate Community Blog — Authority: 129
  Posted by Erin Jordan - email TUCSON, AZ (NASA) - This years Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight and right into Tuesday morning. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors over North America...
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• CERN: CLOUD experiment began operation

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 588
  CLOUD experimental chamber. More photos. Click the picture to zoom it in. The newest article at cern.ch says: CERN is home to lots of experiments and collaborations. CLOUD is an experiment that uses a chamber to study the possible link between cosmic rays and cloud formation. The experiment is based at the ...
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• Astronomy For Teens.

  
  Web Design TB — Authority: 155
  Astronomy is a very serious branch of science, although a lot of people get involved with it when they are very young. Astronomy is a thought-provoking hobby that can show children about the other sciences in general. Certain astronomical subjects inspire kids and movies like Star Wars and they only increase this ...
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• Astronomy Question of the Week: What are shooting stars?

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 605
  A bright line of light appears across the night sky – and popular wisdom would have us believe that any person witnessing a shooting star is entitled to make a wish. With eyes closed, that person must then make their wish, but not tell anyone else what it is.Science also takes an interest in these [...]
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• Astronomers name Scottish park one of worlds best stargazing sites

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Galloway Forest park awarded dark skies status and praised for accessibility to public A vast stretch of forest in south-west Scotland which boasts unrivalled views of the millions of stars in the galaxy, was today named as one of the best places in the world to stargaze. Galloway Forest park , a 300 square mile ...
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• Disney’s Mars & Beyond 6 of 6 - Travel to Mars

  
  CVN Travel — Authority: 136
  Werner von Braun worked with Walt Disney to produce this section about how we might get to Mars. This was actually sent to President Eisenhower & was the current thinking at the time, which became so scaled down to what we did to get to the moon! Rare Walt Disney Space series from 1957, speculating about Mars. ...
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• How to Observe a Meteor Shower

  
  Geology News — Authority: 488
  With the Leonid Meteor Shower peaking on November 17th at between 2:00 and 4:00 AM you might be interested in an article by David Lynch that explains two topics: “How to Observe a Meteor Shower” and “What Causes Meteor Showers?”.
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• Eclipses and a bit of History

  
  Angry Astronomer — Authority: 123
  Recently, Ive been doing some research for an upcoming talk (a sequel to my Science of Anime talk). One of the topics Ill be hitting is that of the duration of solar eclipses and how, in popular media, they occur, from the moment the first bit of the moons limb covers the suns disk, to the moment it leaves it, in ...
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• Leonids Monday night - Tuesday morning, November 16-17!

  
  Another Monkey — Authority: 128
  Im off until Thursday night, which positions me pretty ideally to view this years Leonid meteor shower. Meteor shower this week as we cut through comet trails - space - 15 November 2009 - New Scientist NASA - Leonids 2009 I witnessed the Leonid Meteor Storm of 1998, and that was just unbelievably amazing. ...
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• Designing a Better Astronaut Glove

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 672
  If you can build a better mousetrap, then you can certainly build a better glove for astronauts! Making a glove that both protects the hands of the astronauts in the harsh environment of space or on the Moon , and allowing them the dexterity to manipulate tools is a tough challenge for NASA. Thats why they are ...
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• Leonid Meteor Shower

  
  Growing With Science Blog — Authority: 415
  Yikes, I’m not on top of things. The Leonid Meteor shower coming on November 16/17. Hope you get to see it. Here’s a blurb from space.com
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• Water - On the Moon?!

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 438
  " Significant Amount of Water Found on Moon " Space.com (November 13, 2009) " Its official: Theres water ice on the moon, and lots of it. When melted, the water could potentially be used to drink or to extract hydrogen for rocket fuel. " NASAs LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole ...
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• Celestia Brings Interstellar Exploration to Your Desktop [Downloads]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 818
  If you enjoyed playing with Stellarium , the open-source planetarium software we shared with you earlier this year, but felt strangely tied to an earth-bound perspective, youll definitely want to fly through space with Celestia. Celestia picks up where Stellarium leaves off. With Celestia you can zoom through the ...
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• Picture of the Day – The Ring Nebula

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 605
  It looks like a ring on the sky. Hundreds of years ago astronomers noticed a nebula with a most unusual shape. Now known as M57 or NGC 6720, the gas cloud became popularly known as the Ring Nebula. It is now known to be a planetary nebula, a gas cloud emitted at the end of [...]
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• The Green Flash of the Sun

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 886
  Sometimes, from certain places, the light from the sun can briefly appear green. NASAs Astronomy Picture of the Day explains, Just as the setting Sun disappears completely from view, a last glimmer appears startlingly green. The effect is typically visible only from locations with a low, distant horizon, and lasts ...
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• The Buzz: Out of Sight

  
  Page 3.14 — Authority: 466
  In Ethan Siegels ongoing treatment of dark energy on Starts With A Bang!, he considers a number of alternative explanations for the dimming of redshifted supernovae. Could photon-axion oscillations be to blame, or does a "grey dust" pervade our universe? In another post, Siegel appreciates that our galaxy smells like ...
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