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75What is a meteor shower ?
A meteor shower is one of nature's most breathtaking scenes, but as wonderful as they are to gaze upon, they are even more amazing when you know what causes them! To understand a meteor shower though, we must...
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77The Precession Problem
How do we know exactly where the sun is in relation to the background stars. As the sun is so bright, this is no easy task. However, we have ways of finding out and what we have found is that the apparent movement of the sun is not as straight forward as many have thought. The earth is affected in its orbit by the other planets and wobbles on its axis of rotation. Precession is defined by the solar position against the background stars at key points of the year and they vary.
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74Viewing Meteor Showers
Viewing Meteor Showers is an amateurs hubpage article about how to view meteor showers, where to view them, what they are and what they are not.
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71A Yosemite Hiking and Camping Experience-5 Summer Nights under the Stars from Virginia Lakes to Touloumne
Yosemite back country hiking, fishing and camping with text and photos of scenery, tents, backpacks.
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71Observing The Perseid Meteor Shower Of 2011
This article gives useful information on oberving major astronomical events such as meteor showers. It also gives a detailed summary about the recent Perseid meteor shower of August 2011
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70List of All Annual Meteor Showers
Most of us love meteor showers, and a good meteor shower can brighten anyone's night. Some of us more crafty guys have even used our knowledge of meteor showers and their annual occurrences to impress the ladies, or to create the perfect end to a...
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70Google Logos
First, I would like to start off by saying Happy 11th Birthday Google! We all have heard it, the famous sayings "Google it" if you want to know something about anything. For 11 years, Google has provided not only an amazing search bar preference,...
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70Meteor Facts - All about Meteors
Observing meteors in the sky is one of the fun experience for beginner astronomer. You’ll be able to view meteor showers without using any telescope. But If you want to get more details then you can use small optical telescope or large optical...
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72Planet Mars- The red planet as never seen before
We are normally so intrigued and occupied with daily life, and miss the wonder of the universe. Soon we are going to experience a phenomena, which none of us alive today, will ever see again. Mars is going to be her best spectacular self, in...
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65Meteorites: The Persaid meteor shower, A Returning Event On 12th Of August.
One of the greatest light shows nature can give us is coming our way, and you can watch it live, from the comfort of your own back yard. Take a seat, light a fire, grab a glass of wine and enjoy the spectacle,...
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