Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
A Meteor Over the Anza-Borrego Desert
Explanation:
Meteors [ http://www.seds.org…] will be flashing across your skies over the next two nights [ http://www.skypub.c…]. Specifically, the Perseid Meteor Shower [ http://comets.amsme…] should be at its best just before each morning's dawn. Observers at dark locations might see as much as a meteor a minute. Perseid [ http://science.nasa…] meteors [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are bits of dirt that blew off Comet Swift-Tuttle [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and that burn up [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] as they fall to Earth. Exciting expectations of a new filament in the Perseids [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] might be tested this year. Pictured above is a meteor from the most active meteor shower [ http://www.serve.co…] of last year: the Leonids [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Pictured above [ http://skyphoto.com…], a Leonid meteor was caught in November outshining even the brightest stars [ http://www.astro.wi…] over the Anza-Borrego Desert [ http://www.anzaborr…] in California. The Leonids [ http://www.skypub.c…] will peak again this November and might provide an ever better show.
Credit and Copyright:
Jerry Schad [ http://skyphoto.com…] (SDMC [ http://intergate.sd…])
keyword:
meteor
keyword:
Perseids
keyword:
Leonids
facet_where:
California
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
COMETS
facet_what:
Dawn
facet_what:
Swift
facet_what:
meteor
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap990811

A Meteor Over the Anza-Borrego Desert
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