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What Causes Meteor Showers?
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7beef21a-aed2-416d-9fc1-2813f795d89f/146DB45A-E897-4C46-B0EC-1182C6AD04E1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower.shtml" href="http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">geology.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower.shtml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/geology.com/img/A0F83CA6-1AB7-4292-84CD-5DF44DC97016" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower.shtml"><table background="undefined" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><tr><TD>Figure 1: A composite image of meteors from the Geminid meteor shower of 2007 produced by astronomer Erno Berkó. Over four nights, he captured 123 meteors in 113 photographs, then composited them into this single spectacular image. This image clearly shows that the meteors are streaming from a point (know as a "radiant") near the constellation Gemini. Image copyright by <A href="http://geology.com/articles/mailto:berko at is dot hu">Erno Berkó</A>.</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower.shtml"><H3>How Many Showers, How Many Meteors?</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower.shtml"><H3>How Do Comets Produce Meteor Showers?</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower.shtml"><H3>How to Observe a Meteor Shower</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower.shtml"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="375" bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="center"><IMG width="375" height="273" src="http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower/through-the-dust-trail-4.jpg" /> Figure 5: Simplified diagram of Earth approaching a comet's dust trail. In this diagram you are looking down onto the Earth's North Pole. Note how the morning side of Earth will plow into the dust but the evening side will be somewhat shielded. This is why there are often more visible meteors after midnight - you are then on the side of the Earth that is plowing into the dust. </TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/146DB45A-E897-4C46-B0EC-1182C6AD04E1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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