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Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks August 12th, 2019 Every year in August, the Earth passes through rock and dust fragments left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle, last time it came near the Sun. As these small particles collide with the Earths atmosphere, they burn-up, often creating a startling streak of light across the sky. The term 'Perseid', refers to the star constellation of Perseus. The meteors actually have nothing to do with the stars we see from Earth, as being part of Perseus. It just appears as though the meteors originate from Perseus. The Perseid meteor shower actually starts in late July and runs to late August. However, the best time to view is around the peak.

American Meteor Society camera operators captured a bright fireball from the Perseid Meteor Shower as it streaked across the night sky on July 12, 2019. -- Perseid Meteor Shower 2019 Dazzles Skywatchers Despite a Bright Moon: https://www.space.com/perseid-meteor-shower-2019-dazzles-skywatchers.html Credit: American Meteor Society, Ed Abel Mathias WV, Mike Hankey Monkton MD, Peter Deterline Douglassville PA and Elizabeth Warner UMD

The Perseids meteor shower, one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year, peaks on the night of August 12, 2019. The Perseids is a favorite for many stargazers because it has more bright meteors than most showers, usually about 50-60 per hour. Like most meteor showers, the Perseids are sand grain-sized debris shed from a comet, in this case, Comet Swift-Tuttle. As the Earth passes through the comet’s debris trail every year, some particles enter our atmosphere and vaporize, generating the bright streaks we call meteors. The Perseid Meteor Shower builds slowly, starting in late July when you might see 3 to 4 an hour. They peak when Earth passes through the densest part of the cometary debris stream on August 12-13. At the peak of the show, in clear, dark sky, you might see as many as 60 meteors an hour. For the best view of the Perseids, look for meteors late on August 12 and the early morning of August 13. After midnight is best… that’s when the Earth turns into the stream of particles from Swift-Tuttle. Avoid ambient light if you can. Lie on a reclining chair or a blanket on the ground, and simply look up. You don’t need binoculars or a telescope. Nor do you need to look right at the constellation of Perseus: the meteors can appear anywhere in the sky. Those with long streaks come into the atmosphere at an oblique angle; those with shorter streaks enter the atmosphere at a steep angle and come more directly towards us… and no, they will not hit you! Because the radiant lies in Perseus, northern-hemisphere observers get the best view, although southerners will see some too. In medieval Europe, the Perseids were called the “Tears of St. Lawrence” because they occur near the anniversary of the death of Laurentius, a Christian deacon who was martyred by the Roman Emperor Valerian in the year 258 CE. The first recorded observation of the Perseids was by Chinese astronomers in 36 CE Join us throughout the night of August 12th as we look to the sky with Slooh Astrophysicist, Dr. Paige Godfrey.

It's time for the Perseid meteor shower! Head outside after sunset on August 12, 2019 to catch the peak of some spectacular celestial fireworks. Get the details 👉 https://go.nasa.gov/31AsXqB

The best meteor shower of the year peaks on the mornings of August 12th and 13th. Also, get up to date on the moon phases for the month. -- Perseid Meteor Shower 2019: When, Where & How to See It: https://www.space.com/32868-perseid-meteor-shower-guide.html Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Western University All-Sky Camera Network, near Bancroft, Ontario, captured a fireball blazing across sky in the early morning hours of July 24, 2019. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/canadian-fireball-footage-july-2019.html Credit: Western University / mash mix: Space.com

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A meteor lit up the night sky in Florida and Georgia on Saturday, leaving many in awe over its bright green light. Subscribe to the CBS News Channel HERE: http://youtube.com/cbsnews Watch CBSN live HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1PlLpZ7 Follow CBS News on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/cbsnews/ Like CBS News on Facebook HERE: http://facebook.com/cbsnews Follow CBS News on Twitter HERE: http://twitter.com/cbsnews Get the latest news and best in original reporting from CBS News delivered to your inbox. Subscribe to newsletters HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Get your news on the go! Download CBS News mobile apps HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Get new episodes of shows you love across devices the next day, stream CBSN and local news live, and watch full seasons of CBS fan favorites like Star Trek Discovery anytime, anywhere with CBS All Access. Try it free! http://bit.ly/1OQA29B --- CBSN is the first digital streaming news network that will allow Internet-connected consumers to watch live, anchored news coverage on their connected TV and other devices. At launch, the network is available 24/7 and makes all of the resources of CBS News available directly on digital platforms with live, anchored coverage 15 hours each weekday. CBSN. Always On.

NASA has released images of a huge meteor that exploded over Earth last year with more than 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. The “fireball,” NASA’s term for an exceptionally bright meteor visible over a wide area, exploded about 16 miles above the Bering Sea on Dec. The long, dark streak at the center of the image is actually a shadow of the meteor’s trail cast on top of clouds. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fireball-nasa-terra_n_5c98e057e4b01ebeef123d26 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

Tons of tiny meteorites fall to Earth every day, but are next to impossible to find once they land. At least, that’s what the science community thought. In this pilot episode of our “Trial & Error” experiment series, we go on a hunt for micrometeorites with the help of the amateur scientist who showed the world that they truly could be found. Special thanks to Alessandra Potenza for her help reporting this story. Read more here: http://bit.ly/2DbZGYt Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2FqJZMl Like Verge Science on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2hoSukO Follow on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2Kr29B9 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Read More: http://www.theverge.com Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv Subscribe to Verge on YouTube for explainers, product reviews, technology news, and more: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs

Without access to the crash sites of MH17, which went down on July 17, 2014, investigators can't definitively say why the crash happened. So they begin to consider all kinds of theories - including a meteor strike. From the Series: Air Disasters: Deadly Airspace http://bit.ly/2SjJ3ni

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been used to catalog impact craters on the moon. The data has been used to study impacts through time on Earth as well. Read more: https://www.space.com/43040-moon-craters-impact-record-earth-bombardment.html Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Russia has confirmed a fireball that streaked through the sky above New Zealand this weekend was one of its early warning satellites burning up as it reentered the Earth’s atmosphere Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub Today in Focus podcast ► https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus Support the Guardian ► https://theguardian.com/supportus The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► http://www.youtube.com/theguardian Owen Jones talks ► http://bit.ly/subsowenjones Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture

On Dec. 27, 1984, a Mars meteorite was found in Antarctica. The meteorite, known as Allan Hills 84001, was found in Allan Hills, which is a group of hills in Antarctica. It was found by an American team of meteorite hunters from a National Science Foundation program called ANSMET, which stands for the Antarctic Search for Meteorites. Weighing in at just over 4 lbs., this space rock is considered to be one of the oldest Martian meteorites ever found on Earth. Scientists estimate that it crystallized from molten rock more than 4 billion years ago, when Mars still had liquid water on its surface. Scientists determined that the meteorite probably came from an area called Valles Marineris. To figure that out, they compared spacecraft data on the chemical composition of Mars with the chemical composition of the meteorite. Scientists think that the meteorite was ejected into space when Mars got hit by a meteor about 17 million years ago, and that it hit the Earth about 13,000 years ago.

An official from the California Academy of Sciences explained why the strange light that glowed across California Wednesday night was likely a meteor. Joe Vasquez reports.(12-19-2018)

A mysterious light in the sky was seen from Los Angeles to San Francisco Wednesday night.

It was seen all over the state, and based on the elevation I've estimated this was a meteorite burning up about 30-50miles up over the pacific ocean. People all over the state saw it, in part because many rocket watchers were waiting for a launch out of Vandenberg and were ready to snap pictures of trails in the sky.

The Geminids meteor shower, one of the best meteor showers of the year, peaks during the night of December 13-14, 2018 and shows up to 100-150 meteors per hour in dark sky. Join Slooh for a live show during which we enjoy live feeds from partner observatories of Geminid meteors and discuss this remarkable annual celestial event.

On November 27, 1885, an astronomer made the first known photograph of a meteor. The picture was taken by Austro-Hungarian astronomer Ladislaus Weinek. He captured the trail of the meteor on a photographic plate in the Czech Republic. The meteor he captured was part of the Andromedid meteor shower. The Andromedids were associated with Biela's Comet, which broke apart in the 1850s. When Weinek observed the meteor shower in 1885, it was in the middle of a meteor storm. This means that there were way more meteors than usual. Skywatchers could see thousands of meteors per hour. What used to be a spectacular annual meteor shower is now hardly even visible. Instead of photographic plates or digital cameras, astronomers now have to use special tracking equipment to record images of Andromedid meteors.

In a remote area of northwest Greenland, an international team of scientists has made a stunning discovery, buried beneath a kilometer of ice. It’s a meteor impact crater, 300 meters deep and bigger than Paris or the Beltway around Washington, DC. It is one of the 25 largest known impact craters on Earth, and the first found under any of our planet’s ice sheets. The researchers first spotted the crater in July 2015, while they were inspecting a new map of the topography beneath Greenland's ice sheet that used ice-penetrating radar data primarily from Operation IceBridge, an ongoing NASA airborne mission to track changes in polar ice, and earlier NASA airborne missions in Greenland. Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/2RSkn1u This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12941 Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jefferson Beck Footage and co-production courtesy of the National History Museum of Denmark/University of Copenhagen, the Underground Channel, and the Alfred Wegener Institute Music credit: "Timelapse Variations - Remixed" Natalie Draper, Composer Original recording: Symphony Number One, SNOtone Records Dan Rorke, Audio Engineer Jordan Smith, Music Director http://www.nataliedraper.net https://symphonynumber.one If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

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Dozens of phone calls have been made to the Perth Observatory after people reported 'a giant fireball' above south-west Australia. The fireball is believed to have been a meteor that entered the Earth's atmosphere at speeds of up to 20km per second, according to the observatory. Scientists from Curtin University are investigating whether the meteor completely burned up in the atmosphere or hit the ground near York, a town about 100km east of Perth Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub Support the Guardian ► https://theguardian.com/supportus The Guardian ► https://www.theguardian.com The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► www.youtube.com/theguardian Owen Jones talks ► http://bit.ly/subsowenjones Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture Guardian Science and Tech ► http://is.gd/guardiantech

Streaming from Balmville New York... SkyWatcher Gaming Wednesday-Thusday August 15-16, 2018 Direct link to this video: https://youtu.be/Orxc7d3sY9Y

Please read the distribution below: Sunday - Monday August 12-13, 2018 The Perseids Meteor Shower this year is on August 12-13, 2018. The peek for the shower is on the 13th at 4:00 AM. Some say this year there could be 200 meteors an hour (lets hope so). I will been importing live streams from other places in the USA into the stream. More on this later... Added bonus... There will be an Iridium Flare (satellite flare) passing into the field of view at 10:11 p.m. my time.

The Perseid meteor shower is ready to put a great shows up there, this year. At Virtual Telescope, we will share it live, online, for you to enjoy it from the comfort of your home. More: https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/

Please read description below: Saturday- Sunday August 11-12, 2018 The Perseids Meteor Shower maximum peak this year is on August 12-13, 2018. The peak time for the shower is on the 13th at 4:00 AM. Some say this year there could be 100 meteors an hour (lets hope so). Added bonus... NASA's Parker Solar Probe launch time has been set for 3:31 a.m. (1:31 a. m. my time). 30 minutes before the launch I'll insert the launch live stream, bottom right of of the screen. I'll will also be streaming the Perseids Meteor Shower Sunday night and Monday night too!!! Please subscribe to my Youtube channel (bell icon) so that you will receive an email when I go live.

According to Business Insider, the best meteor shower of the year is going to take place this weekend. Perseids meteor showers are identified by explosions of light and color as well as their long, streaking tails. These meteor showers typically that last longer than other meteor showers. This year, the viewing of the meteors will be particularly spectacular, since there's a new moon on August 11th. This means that there will be almost no moonlight to interfere with the show. The best time to watch the Perseids shower will be on the night of August 12th and the early morning of August 13th. https://www.businessinsider.com/perseids-meteor-shower-2018-8 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

Friday-Saturday Augest 10-1, 2018 The Perseids Meteor Shower this year is on August 12-13, 2018. The peek for the shower is on the 13th at 4:00 AM. Some say this year there could be 100 meteors an hour (lets hope so).

The Perseid Meteor Shower peaks on the night of August 12 into the morning of August 13. With a clear sky, observers will be able to see up to 60 meteors per hour at its peak. NASA Science: http://science.nasa.gov/

Whether it’s the Perseids meteor shower in August or the Orionids in October, meteor showers are one of those light shows we can always count on year after year. And that regularity has everything to do with what you’re actually seeing when you watch a meteor shower. Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to's, gaming, science, digital culture, and more. Subscribe to our channel and visit us at: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai TI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tech_insider/ TI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSIDER on Snapchat: https://insder.co/2KJLtVo -------------------------------------------------- Following is the transcript of the video: Solar eclipses are rare and you can never predict when an aurora will illuminate the sky. But there's one cosmic light show we can always count on. Meteor showers. They happen around the same time each year and have been doing so for centuries. But despite their brilliance and beauty it doesn't take much to make a meteor shower. You just need three ingredients, the sun, Earth and a comet. Comets have been around since the dawn of our solar system over four-and-a-half billion years ago. They formed out of the same disc of gas and dust that created earth and the other seven planets. And like the other planets they too orbit the sun but that's where the similarities end. Most planets orbit the sun on fairly circular orbits whereas comets take a more elliptical path through our solar system. Check out Halley's Comet for example. Right now it's beyond the orbit of the furthest planet Neptune. But over the next 50 years it will travel about three billion miles toward the inner reaches of our solar system. Eventually flying past Earth in the year 2061. And it's encounters like this that make meteor showers possible. Because as a comet approaches the inner solar system, the sun's radiation heats up ice under the surface and as that ice turns to a vapor it generates powerful outbursts of gas and dust, sometimes ejecting hundreds of tons of material into space per second. The result is a brilliant stream of debris called the comet tail or coma, which can stretch hundreds to thousands of miles across. In fact, space is littered with comet tail debris that our planet passes through each year. And when that happens, the debris strikes our atmosphere at over 100,000 miles an hour, incinerating the four-and-a-half billion year old fragments in seconds. This produces brilliant flashes of light that we call a meteor shower. Now some meteor showers are more spectacular than others, giving us anywhere from a few to over a hundred meteors an hour. And even the same meteor shower can vary from year to year. It all depends on how much debris we scoop up as we pass through the tail. Regardless, comet tails tend to follow the same path as the comet itself, which means they pass through the same spot along Earth's orbit. That's why we get the same meteor showers around the same time each year. At the end of October for example, we pass through the tale of Halley's Comet which gives us the Orionids meteor shower. And every August, we pass through comet Swift-Tuttle's tail which we see as the Perseids meteor shower. But it's not just October and August, meteor showers occur year-round. So check your calendar to see when the next one will be coming to a sky near you.

A long standing question that we seem to ask ourselves is, where do we come from? And while there are many responses to that question, it appears that science is one step closer to figuring it out. According to Geek.com, a new study lead by the University of Manchester points to ancient meteorites as a source for possible clues to understanding the genesis of life on Earth. The study confirms that organic matter found in a 4.5 billion year old chondritic asteroid made during the infant stage of our Solar System, formed from basic chemical reactions. The study’s findings suggest that if organic material can develop from basic chemical processes in galaxy, why shouldn’t that be true in other planetary systems. https://www.geek.com/news/ancient-meteorites-shed-light-on-early-solar-system-1748457/?source http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit Tech using http://wochit.com

4 days left until Perseid Meteor Shower!

I'm all so streaming this meteor shower from Balmville New York. Here is a direct link to SkyWatcher Gaming if you wish to view from that site: https://youtu.be/ITOGkCCuSjo (Thanks Bill!)

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Meteoroids slammed into the moon twice in a 24 hour period on July 17 and 18, 2018. The Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System (MIDAS) project in Spain captured the fireworks. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/41356-watch-two-meteorites-hit-the-moon.html Credit: Space.com / footage courtesy: Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System (MIDAS)/Jose Maria Madiedo / produced and edited by Steve Spaleta

What's up in the night sky this month? The best meteor shower of the year! The Perseids peak on a moonless summer night –from 4 p.m. on the 12th until 4 a.m. on the 13th EDT. Thanks to a new moon, the days before and after the peak will also provide nice, dark skies. The best time to look for shooting stars is from a few hours after twilight until dawn on the days surrounding the peak. For more star parties and astronomy events near you, visit https://nightsky.nasa.gov

Save the date to watch the peak of the Perseid meteor shower—an always-anticipated feature of the night sky—August 12 and 13th. This month, backyard telescopes will also reveal sunlight reflecting off the clouds of Venus’s thick atmosphere and the Ring Nebula, an expanding shell of glowing gas in the constellation Lyra. “Tonight’s Sky” is produced by HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a recurring show, and you can find more episodes—and other astronomy videos—at http://hubblesite.org/videos/science Subscribe For More Videos Like This: http://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace?sub_confirmation=1 See my latest videos : https://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace/videos Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9 Music by Keving Macleod http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

See more images from this event by visiting http://bit.ly/acapricornids Recently, I spent 6 days backpacking up and over massive peaks within California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. My trip was planned around the Waxing Gibbous phase of the moon to take advantage of moonlit, mountainous and alpine landscapes at high altitudes. From ~12,000-foot elevations, the stars glistened vividly, colorful, and radiant. Challenging daily thunderstorms seemed to follow me around every corner however, I was rewarded each cool night with a few moments of clear skies. During the third night of the trip, I prepared a time-lapse to capture the moonset, followed by the Milky Way positioning itself behind a 12,700-foot mountain peak in the distance. In a rare stroke of luck, my camera captured an unmistakably massive meteor ‘Fireball’ entering our atmosphere. I thought the most impressive part of the image above was just how brilliant the meteor was. The explosion was so bright it briefly illuminated the entire landscape. Music by Doug Maxwell entitled "Breathing Planet."

According to Digitaltrends.com, ALE Co., a Tokyo-based startup says you shouldn't have to wait for a meteor shower to look at shooting start. The company is looking to develop a system that would offer paying customers “shooting stars on demand,” and based on a report by Japan Times, the first man-made meteor shower in the history of the world could take place in just two years. The system depends upon two satellites, both of which are currently being developed. The satellites are set to be programmed to send the tiny fireworks flying in the right place, speed, and direction in order to achieve visible illumination even over an extremely crowded metropolitan area. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/japan-man-made-meteor-shower/ http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit Tech using http://wochit.com

On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 at night. The space stone weighed nearly 326 pounds and was recovered from a 6 foot- deep crater in a wheat field when it was found five days later. A piece of it is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Abee is classified as enstatite chondrite with petrologic type 4. It is the only type in the world of this specific meteorite. Scientists think meteorites like Abee formed near the sun, where it would contain little or no water, according to the museum.

According to Gizmodo, in 2008 a large meteor detonated above Sudan, covering the area with shards of material. Scientists have been collecting and analyzing these samples to see what can be learned from them. New research indicates that there was likely a Mercury or Mars-sized planet that has been shredded and scattered throughout the system. The 80-ton meteorite is known as Almahata Sitta, and is the first significant evidence that another proto-world existed long ago in our solar system. This micro world may have collided with another proto-planet and caused a huge debris field to get scattered across the solar system. It is speculated this helped to seed many of the planetary bodies we see today, like Earth. https://www.geek.com/science/diamonds-found-in-meteorite-tell-story-of-destroyed-planet-1737483/?source http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

On the hunt for lost meteorites in Antarctica (which totally sounds like a mission straight out of Tomb Raider), researchers from the U.K.’s University of Manchester have turned to innovative metal-detecting technology to help them. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/hunt-meteorites-antarctica-metal-detector/ http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

Videos posted to social media purportedly show the night sky lighting up over Michigan on Tuesday. The National Weather Service in Detroit said it was a likely meteor. Subscribe to the CBS News Channel HERE: http://youtube.com/cbsnews Watch CBSN live HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1PlLpZ7 Follow CBS News on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/cbsnews/ Like CBS News on Facebook HERE: http://facebook.com/cbsnews Follow CBS News on Twitter HERE: http://twitter.com/cbsnews Get the latest news and best in original reporting from CBS News delivered to your inbox. Subscribe to newsletters HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Get your news on the go! Download CBS News mobile apps HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Get new episodes of shows you love across devices the next day, stream CBSN and local news live, and watch full seasons of CBS fan favorites like Star Trek Discovery anytime, anywhere with CBS All Access. Try it free! http://bit.ly/1OQA29B --- CBSN is the first digital streaming news network that will allow Internet-connected consumers to watch live, anchored news coverage on their connected TV and other devices. At launch, the network is available 24/7 and makes all of the resources of CBS News available directly on digital platforms with live, anchored coverage 15 hours each weekday. CBSN. Always On.

The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Jan 3-4 and on January 31, 2017, a total (and partial) lunar eclipse will be visible. Also, Jupiter and Mars will converge. -- First Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse in 150 Years! - https://www.space.com/39241-first-blue-moon-total-eclipse-150-years.html Quadrantids Skywatching Guide: https://www.space.com/35142-quadrantid-meteor-shower-guide.html Credit: NASA JPL-Caltech

Residents of the northeast region have reported sightings of a possible meteor on 26 December.

A meteor sailed across the Northeast skies Tuesday, dazzling dozens of spectators in more than a half-dozen states, experts said. Subscribe to TIME ►► http://po.st/SubscribeTIME Get closer to the world of entertainment and celebrity news as TIME gives you access and insight on the people who make what you watch, read and share. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2EFFA5DB900C633F Money helps you learn how to spend and invest your money. Find advice and guidance you can count on from how to negotiate, how to save and everything in between. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYOGLpQQfhNKdqS_Wccs94rMHiajrRr4W Find out more about the latest developments in science and technology as TIME’s access brings you to the ideas and people changing our world. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYOGLpQQfhNIzsgcwqhT6ctKOfHfyuaL3 Let TIME show you everything you need to know about drones, autonomous cars, smart devices and the latest inventions which are shaping industries and our way of living https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2862F811BE8F5623 Stay up to date on breaking news from around the world through TIME’s trusted reporting, insight and access https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYOGLpQQfhNJeIsW3A2d5Bs22Wc3PHma6 CONNECT WITH TIME Web: http://time.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TIME Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/time Google+: https://plus.google.com/+TIME/videos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en Magazine: http://time.com/magazine/ Newsletter: time.com/newsletter ABOUT TIME TIME brings unparalleled insight, access and authority to the news. A 24/7 news publication with nearly a century of experience, TIME’s coverage shapes how we understand our world. Subscribe for daily news, interviews, science, technology, politics, health, entertainment, and business updates, as well as exclusive videos from TIME’s Person of the Year, TIME 100 and more created by TIME’s acclaimed writers, producers and editors. A Surprise Meteor That Soared Across New England Captured On Security Camera | TIME https://www.youtube.com/user/TimeMagazine