Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids

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Heat to Blame for Space Pebble Demise

Mar 21, 2024

On the Trail of Fireballs: Tracking Meteors and Finding Meteorites

On the Trail of Fireballs: Tracking Meteors and Finding Meteorites

Mar 08, 2024 , 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM

composite images showing the radiant distributions on January 22 and January 23 in the years of 2022, 2023 and 2024, with the 2024 meteor shower outburst marked as "919".

Iota Centaurid meteors showed stronger than usual activity

Feb 12, 2024

Mario Billiani

From Budapest to Berlin: The Asteroid That Brought Astronomers Together

Jan 23, 2024

COMET 46P/WIRTANEN as seen from CAMS.

METEORS FROM COMET 46P/WIRTANEN

Dec 13, 2023

Geminid meteors

The Best Meteor Shower of the Year This Week!

Dec 13, 2023

Bollides map 2019-2023

Unlocking Insights into Asteroid Impact Risks: SETI Institute Leverages Weather Satellite Data and AI

Nov 16, 2023

Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers book and Dr. Peter Jenniskens

The First ‘Birder’s Guide’ to Meteor Showers

Oct 31, 2023

group picture of FPO board

IAU names Asteroids after SETI Institute Citizen Scientists

Oct 24, 2023

The first detection of comet C/2023 A3 by a Unistellar citizen astronomer with their eVscope. To see the faint comet, SETI scientists stacked 300 4-second exposures centered where C/2023 A3 should have been. The result showed the comet right where scientists predicted it to be!

Comet C/2023 A3 Could Be the Next Great Comet

May 22, 2023

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