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I found a new meteor shower, and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun

  • Written by Patrick M. Shober, Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Sciences, NASA
I found a new meteor shower, and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the SunThis composite image shows the Geminid meteors, captured in 2020 using Global Meteor Network software. Aleksandar Merlak

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors.

Most movies and news alerts focus on large asteroids that could...

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