Earth Now Flying Through a Debris Field, Paper Finds
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An eagle-eyed astronomer has discovered that an elusive asteroid is apparently shedding hundreds of fragments — and our planet is flying through the ensuing debris field, making for a spectacular show of shooting stars when these small bits of cosmic metal and rock hit Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA postdoctoral fellow Patrick Shober published his findings in a paper last month in The Astrophysical Journal, which came about from analyzing reams of data from observatories in California, Canada
NASA postdoctoral fellow Patrick Shober published his findings in a paper last month in The Astrophysical Journal, which came about from analyzing reams of data from observatories in California, Canada
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