Sentences with phrase «meteors per»

The Ursids is a minor meteor shower producing about 5 - 10 meteors per hour.

The Orionids is an average shower producing up to 20 meteors per hour at its peak.

The Draconids is a minor meteor shower producing only about 10 meteors per hour.

The Perseids, which may deliver as many as 80 meteors per hour, should also be visible on the night of August 13.

This year, the Leonid meteor shower should treat skywatchers to beween 10 and 15 meteors per hour, NASA meteor expert Bill Cook, head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, told Space.com.

There's an excellent probability that in several hours, more than 30 meteors per second will radiate from Algieba's vicinity like fiery spokes streaming from the hub of a wheel.

This year, the Leonid meteor shower should treat skywatchers to beween 10 and 15 meteors per hour, a NASA meteor expert says

Expect 10 to 20 meteors per hour at the peak.

In 1982, American observers did see an outburst of nearly 100 Lyrid meteors per hour.

Bottom line: The Lyrid meteor shower offers 10 to 20 meteors per hour at its peak on a moonless night.

Not exact matches

The numbers suggest a Martian would have seen many thousands of shooting stars per hour — possibly enough to be called a meteor storm — so it must have been a spectacular event that night on Mars.»

By contrast, October's wimpy Draconid meteors catch up from behind, loping across the sky at a mere 12 miles per second.

On any clear night, a handful of meteors can be seen per hour, but that rises to dozens per hour during a meteor shower.

Some meteor strikes in Mars's past were powerful enough to propel pieces of the planet's crust at speeds greater than escape velocity, some 3.1 miles per second.

A one - ounce meteor traveling at Earth's speed of 18 miles per second will become as bright as Arcturus.

As long predicted, the meteor's initial pinprick of light spreads into a curved bow shock as it plows into the upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds of 71 kilometers per second.

That debris is what you're seeing when you see a meteor shower: dust - sized particles slamming into the Earth's atmosphere at tens of thousands of miles per hour.

The meteors are bits of comet debris that «zip into the earth's upper atmosphere at speeds of about 40 - 60 km per second,» or 30 - 50 miles per second, says MacRobert.

This meant only one thing: The groundbreaking Saturn mission had come to an end — the spacecraft had encountered the uppermost atmosphere of Saturn and, 45 seconds later, it burned up like an artificial meteor caused by the intense heat of hitting the atmosphere at 75,000 miles (120,700 kilometers) per hour.

The meteor was traveling about 65,000 kilometers (40,000 miles) per hour.

The meteor travelled at an estimated 45,000 kilometers (28,000 miles) per hour, creating a sonic «boom» that startled many people.

The Geminids of 8 — 17 December are widely regarded as the most active and consistent annual meteor shower, with peak predicted rates of 100 shooting stars per hour under dark skies.

«We expect to see meteor rates as high as a hundred per hour,» says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.

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The day the meteor shower will happen will mark the point where 86 per cent of the season is gone.