Questions tagged [meteors]
A meteor or "shooting star" is the passage of a meteoroid or micrometeoroid into the Earth's atmosphere, incandescent from air friction and shedding glowing material in its wake sufficiently to create a visible streak of light.
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Azimuth and Altitude of a Meteor Shower
What is a reliable source to understand the Azimuth and Altitude of a meteor shower at a specific geographic location at an instant of time for observation?
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How different would a comet impact be vs. an asteroid impact?
If a 50 meter asteroid caused a 1.5 kilometer crater as Barringer Crater is described, how different would the impact of a 50 meter comet be, assuming the comet was 85% water and other volatiles, with ...
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How to protect Mars/Moon mission crews against meteors?
Humans are expected to return to the Moon (see Artemis) and maybe go to Mars (see this and this) within a decade or two.
Meteors frequently strike the surface of both the Moon and Mars (one can't ...
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Can a meteor shower have a interval greater than 1 year?
Most meteor showers are yearly events. In the manga "SoSo no Frieren" the characters experience a meteor shower that happens only once every fifty years. The story does not take place on ...
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Has there been any bolide-spacecraft near-miss?
Has there been any incident where a reentering spacecraft nearly collided with a meteor?
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What is the temperature of the atmosphere at the height where meteors burn up and does that temperature significantly help cause the burning up?
What is the temperature of the atmosphere at the height where meteors burn up and does that temperature significantly help cause the burning up?
Inspired by this comment: "The question is flawed--...
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Did Mars Express get hit by a "Meteor hurricane"? (2014 October 19, comet C/2013 A1) Was it observed at all?
The abstract of the open access 2014 paper Meteor hurricane at Mars on 2014 October 19 from comet C/2013 A1 says:
omet C/2013 A1 will make a very close approach with the planet Mars on 2014 October ...
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How much do on-demand, artificial meteor showers cost these days?
On-demand, artificial meteor showers are discussed in
Artificial Shooting Stars - how could this possibly work (economically/technologically)?
Why would a box full of 1cm balls released into LEO be ...
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How can a meteor gain energy in an encounter with the Earth even though these answers say it can't?
The question Did a spacecraft ever use an atmosphere to accelerate away from a planet? was unfortunately given five down votes and answered with:
Entering the atmosphere introduces drag, which could ...
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Is Mars more at risk than Earth for asteroid collisions?
When looking at topographical pictures of Mars it seems like there are craters far more frequently than here on Earth. This statement, of course, is just pure speculation on my part. However, it makes ...
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What are the "NASA research assets" at Thule that were not recently destroyed by a meteor?
The Military Times article No, a meteor did not destroy Thule Air Base as well as the Independent's article Air Force fails to acknowledge mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth near US military base ...
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What is used to monitor objects burning up in the atmosphere on descent?
Tiangong 1 is expected to fall out of orbit and burn up somewhere this weekend. On March 12, 2018 people all over Western Washington State reported a flash and loud boom which is believed to be a ...
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Meteor color hints at chemistry
This recent meteor over the midwest. Reports described it at blue / green. I have seen blue / white, red and yellow meteors. I presume red means iron, green means copper. Can meteoritics or meteor ...
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Why are space probes and satellites not destroyed by meteor showers such as the Perseid?
What are the mechanisms used to avoid destruction of space probes and satellites during meteor showers? Are they affected by them?
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Does the airburst effect of a meteor depend on the chemical composition of the atmosphere?
Does the magnitude and character of an airbursting meteor depend substantially on whether it hits an atmosphere with much O2, N2 or CO2? Does the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere affect meteors?
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