Article: Archive: Planets are elusive but look out for meteor showers; The night sky for November from Birmingham Astronomical Society.(Features)

Article: Starry Skies: Spectacular meteor showers are the ...
Motorboating;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... bring them to our inner solar system. They, too, produce spectacular meteor showers. And if you happen to ... reliable movement of the solar system that we use to set our ... than a grain of sand. Meteor showers have peaks where the ...

Article: Meteor showers coming to a night sky near you
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  August 5, 2004 ;     551 words ... ... 12, when one of best annual meteor showers should be better than usual ... says Patrick Wiggins, NASA solar system ambassador to Utah, they could ... magazine article, noted that meteor showers are somewhat unpredictable so ...

Article: Meteor showers a hit across the planet - Southern ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  November 17, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... black sky early today. The meteor showers seemed to come in bursts - three ... comet speeds through the inner solar system and sheds swarms of particles ... of any damage were slim, and meteor showers from the dusty wake of comets ...

Article: AN EXTRAVAGANZA IN THE SKY WARM WEATHER, SETTING MOON BRIGHTENS ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 4, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... the best and brightest of the meteor showers that periodically enliven the ... astronomer Susan French of Glenville. Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through ... may have been ejected from the solar system," French speculated. "If ...

Article: Forecast calls for meteor showers
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  August 6, 2005 ;     578 words ... ... The Perseids are a favorite among meteor showers, not only because of pleasant seasonal ... deep space beyond Pluto through our solar system and around the Sun. This cosmic dirty ... last plunged through the plane of the solar system in 1992. Early morning hours tend ...

Article: Spot a shooting star.(meteor showers)
Hopscotch;  August 1, 2003 ;     521 words ...Late Night Sky Shows Meteor showers are named according to the constellations from which they seem ... Comets are large chunks of dirty ice left over from the time the solar system was formed. Comets sometimes fall inward toward the sun. The ...

Article: EYE THE SKY FOR LEONID METEOR SHOWERS/
The Boston Globe;  October 31, 1999 ;     603 words ... ... nights are brisk but not intimidating. This year, the Leonid Meteor showers will peak on the night of Nov. 17-18. It might be a spectacular ... Comet Tempel-Tuttle, makes a close pass through the solar system, leaving a thick cloud of cometary dust in its wake. This ...