This is an amazing animations, NASA’s Solar and Helioscopic Observatory (SOHO), captured this footage of the Kreutz Sungrazer as it made its fateful approach. Kreutz Sungrazers are characterised by orbits taking them extremely close to the Sun. Named after a 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the [...]
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Comet VS. the Sun
January 5th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Space News · Space Weather
Western U.S. Skies Light Up From Midnight Meteor
November 19th, 2009 · No Comments
At exactly 12:07 am Mountain Standard Time last night a bolide meteor crashed into Earth’s atmosphere above the western United States. Witnesses in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho say the fireball “turned night into day” and issued shock waves that “shook the ground” when it exploded. This flooded phone lines for 9-1-1 and local television [...]
Tags: Meteor Showers · Space News · Space Weather
Conditions for Tuesday Morning’s Leonid Meteor Shower
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Tonight around 4am EST will be the Leonid Meteor Shower. It should peak around 4am. That’s the time I will be working. If I can peak out and see any in downtown Rochester I will try. If you get a great picture send it to me. You can email it to weather@wroctv.com or wxman <dot> [...]
Tags: Meteor Showers · Space News · Space Weather
Satellite Debris, Meteor, or UFO?
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments
What was that in the sky over Texas Sunday? Initially, it was reported that the bright fireball was produced by debris from two satellites that collided last Tuesday, since those reports, experts have analyzed the video and feel this something more natural. From SpaceWeather.net: What you just saw was not satellite debris. The high speed [...]
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Winter Begins… Tale of 2 Winters
December 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Across most of the United States people have already pulled out their shovels and snow blowers as winter weather storms returned for another season. Winter is here, and it began right on schedule–December 1. That’s right. That’s the official start of the winter season and how official weather records are kept. Weather-wise, winter does not [...]
Tags: Blizzard · Cold Weather · Ice · Lake Effect Snow · Misc Weather · Snow · Space News · Winter 2008/2009 · Winter Storms · Winter Weather
