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Motion detection captures meteors
Intelligent video is helping to investigate meteors that disintegrate in the Earths atmosphere.
Scientists in Croatia are using a TeleEye RX video recording server to detect and record images of the meteors.

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Meteor pings



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Major Meteor Showers
Shower Name
Dates
Peak Dates
ZHR
Source
Quadrantids January 1 to 5 January 3 120 Asteroid 2003 EH1
Lyrids April 15 to 28 April 22 15 Comet Thatcher
Eta Aquarids April 19 to May 28 May 6 60 Comet 1P/Halley
Arietids May 22 to July 2 June 7 54 Marsden sungrazer comets
Delta Aquarids July 12 to August 19 July 28 20 Kracht/Machholz sungrazer comets
Perseids July 17 to August 24 August 12 90 Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle
Orionids October 2 to November 7 October 21 20 Comet 1P/Halley
Geminids December 7 to 17 December 14 120 Minor planet 3200 Phaethon
Ursids December 17 to 26 December 22 10 Comet 8P/Tuttle


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On an early spring morning in 1973 several children walking to school were stopped in their tracks by the sight of a bright light streaking across the sky.
Everyone, including the school's crossing guard, gazed skyward as the bright object traversed the blue, cloudless sky.
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Meteor Over Alberta, Canada



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Fireballs over Denmark



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For the past two years, Henry Wiebe has been filming the sky above his cattle farm in southern Alberta.
Each morning, he heads into his workshop and changes the tapes on VCRs that have been recording what the camera sees each night. Every afternoon, he changes the tapes again.
Once in a rare while, something exciting happens.
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Meteor No.5 2007



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Meteor Compilation ( Update Version)



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meteor shower



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