Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
www.FunToWatch.TV My Comments on NASA Live footage. Geminids are pieces of debris from an object called 3200 Phaethon. Long thought to be an asteroid, Phaethon is now classified as an extinct comet.Basically it is the rocky skeleton of a comet that lost its ice after too many close encounters with the sun. Earth runs into a stream of debris from 3200 Phaethon every year in mid-December, causing meteors to fly from the constellation Gemini. When the Geminids first appeared in the late 19th century, shortly before the US Civil War, the shower was weak and attracted little attention. There was no hint that it would ever become a major display. The camera is mounted at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Live meteor shower cam highlights of what I saw. The commentary is by me. Enjoy Video Footage Credit NASA
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I did NOT make this video
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This was one of the brightest meteors I saw on the morning of August 12, 2009. The camcorder didn’t pick it up too well, but my still camera captured it no problem (even though the wide angle lens made it seem rather small in the sky). I had both cameras facing roughly the same direction (northwest, about 300 degrees and pointed up around 70 degrees). This was recorded in Milwaukee, WI at 01:29 AM local time, or 06:29 UTC.
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This simulation of a drive through a snowstorm. The visual effect of relative motion is similar to the effect of the orbital motion of the earth through a meteor shower.
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Clip of Leonid meteor shower
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Perseids Metor Shower 2009: Big announced but for most of us (at least in Europe) a meteor watch fail, cause we had to much clouds. Nevertheless I put together a timelapse video for you guys. I know there are more planes and moving clouds than shooting stars, but still I think it is worth watching. Enjoy! ++++++++ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain (1935 -1910) ++++++++ Camera used: Canon 450D Characters done with: iphone and time exposure ++++++++ Dedicated to Nathan Wills www.youtube.com ++++++++ Music “DJ FAB – Face our Darkness” ++++++++ Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com
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January 18, 2000 One of the most dramatic meteors in 10 years streaked across the skies of the Yukon Territory in Canada. Witnesses reported two sonic booms, a foul odor, and sizzling sounds heard all the way from Alaska through northwestern Canada. Based on readings from defense satellites and seismic monitoring stations, scientists estimate that the meteor detonated with the energy of two to three kilotons of TNT. “I have never seen anything quite like this before,” said Joe Clarke of Marshlake, Yukon, who saw the meteor at 0845 PST (1645 UT) on January 18. “When it started, the flash lit up the mountains 15 km away as bright as daylight, then it just drifted across the sky. The contrail looked to me like the ones left by shuttle launches. It just hung there for at least 1/2 hour. [It's the] wildest thing I could ever imagine seeing.” There was no major meteor shower on January 18. The Yukon fireball was probably what astronomers call a sporadic meteor. The inner solar system is filled with tiny dust particles that have bubbled off innumerable comets as they pass close to the Sun. These particles, called meteoroids, hit the Earth from random directions producing 2 or 3 sporadic meteors per hour every night. Scientists from NASA and the Department of Defense are interested in the the Yukon event. Samples of dust or rock fragments from the explosion could reveal the origin of the meteoroid. Defense specialists would also like to know what the meteoroid was made of to help …
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In the night from December 13. to 14. is the peak of the geminids Meteor Shower 2009. This is the most reliable meteor shower. There will be now interference by the moon this year (New Moon). This meteor shower is named after “Gemini” (the twins) because it appears to radiate from the constellation Gemini. An observer in the Northern Hemisphere can start seeing Geminids meteors around Dec 7th, when one meteor every hour or so could be visible. During the next 7 days, there is a slow build-up. The Geminids rapidly increase to a peak of 80-150 meteors per hour (depending on the source) in the night from Dec 13 to 14 and then rapidly decline. The last night meteors are likely to be seen from this meteor shower is Dec 17th, when an observer might see a Perseid every hour or so. For observers in the Southern Hemisphere, the Perseid radiant never climbs above the horizon, which will considerably reduce the number of Perseid meteors you are likely to see. Nevertheless, on the night of maximum, it is possible to see 10-15 meteors per hour coming up from the northern horizon. ++++++ Please sub to newburyas for more information www.youtube.com www.twitter.com ++++++ Meteorwatch on Twitter newburyas: twitter.com guardianscience twitter.com astronomy2009uk twitter.com Tag: #meteorwatch ++++++ LINKS NASA: science.nasa.gov ESA: www.esa.int nationalgeographic: news.nationalgeographic.com MSNBC: www.msnbc.msn.com Wired: www.wired.com Meteorshowers: meteorshowersonline.com Meteor Shower …
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This video is about the Perseid Meteor shower which happened at the 11th/12th August. If you would like to know about the perseid meteor you should check out wikipedia. Made by Elite2882. No Copyrights Intended.
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Astronomy videos: www.atheism-magazine.com Meteor Crash In Alberta/Canada, Filmed By Police Cam And From International Space Station (ISS). 
Ok, until 1:00 it’s accurate (real meteorite crash Nov. 20, 2008), the rest is computer animation (no pictures from ISS!), but similar collisions happened many times in the history of our planet. Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com .
