Fireballs were much in the news over the past month due to a big one that was seen in the Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana areas around local midnight on March 26 - 27, 2003. The fireball streaked …

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The brightest of the meteors are called fireballs. Sonic booms often follow the appearance of a fireball just as thunder often follows lightning. At certain times of the year, more meteors than normal can be …

This photograph was taken by S. Eichmiller in Altoona, Pennsylvania just after the main meteoroid body broke up into fragments. The events surrounding the fall of the Peekskill meteorite on October 9, …

In January of 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was launched for what would be its final journey into space. Columbia, the oldest shuttle in the orbiter fleet, was on its 28th mission when it sustained …

VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Video footage of fireball streaking across the sky, breaking up into seperate smaller fireballs. Animation of path of fireball over a map of the Eastern United States. Fireball tracks …

Do you have any pets? Sadly, no. I was brought up in a household that always had a dog and lots and lots of cats and I love them. Whenever I go to visit, if there's a dog or a cat, I talk to the dogs or the …

Scientists believe that comets are the debris left from the solar nebula which condensed to form the Sun and planets in our solar system. Most comets are thought to originate in a huge cloud called the Oort …

children. Particularly my science teachers because I went into science. But not just science teachers.

If you weren't an astronomer what would you be? I very much enjoy teaching. I'm not sure I could be a schoolteacher, but if I could find some way of teaching people something, I think that's what I would do.