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space station meteor presented by

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science at nasa

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on august 12th and 13th earth passed

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through a stream of debris from comet

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swift tuttle source of the annual

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perseid meteor shower

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around the world millions of people

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watched bunches of bright and colorful

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perseids streak across the moonlit sky

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but only six people saw the shower from

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above high above earth's surface

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circling the planet at 17 000 miles per

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hour the crew of the international space

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station watched the shower too

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this is what a shooting star looks like

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from space tweeted expedition 28 flight

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engineer ron garan who photographed a

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bright perseid streaking beneath the

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space station

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at the time of the shot 1917 universal

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time on august 13th

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the iss was over china moving from the

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gobi desert near the mongolian border

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toward beijing

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this isn't the first time astronauts

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have seen and photographed meteors

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underfoot but this could be the most

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beautiful shot to date

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in my opinion this is the finest still

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image of a meteor from the international

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space station or any spacecraft says

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bill cook director of nasa's meteoroid

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environment office

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good catch ron

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cook has analyzed the image based on the

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meteor's apparent brightness he believes

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garen caught a nugget of comet debris

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about one centimeter in diameter hitting

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the atmosphere at 132 000 miles per hour

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the astronomical magnitude of the meteor

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was about negative three

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very nearly a fireball says cook

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other objects of interest in the photo

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include

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the orange giant star arcturus brightest

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member of the constellation boutes the

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herdsmen

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corona borealis the northern crown

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serpens the serpent

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solar panels of the international space

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station and a soyuz spacecraft docked to

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the space station

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a layer of green air glow

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air glow comes from atoms and molecules

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in earth's upper atmosphere which are

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excited by sunlight during the day

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at night they release their energy as a

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green band of light visible from orbit

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cook is convinced

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next year he says i want to watch the

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perseids from orbit too

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