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Daylight Perseids: A Rare Solar Eclipse Could Let Meteors Shine in Daylight

Skywatchers could glimpse the daytime Perseid meteor shower during a rare total solar eclipse sweeping Greenland, Iceland, and Spain; the event is helped by a new moon for better visibility, and this daylight overlap hasn’t happened since 1999 along the eclipse corridor.

via The Washington Post|

#astronomy #greenland #iceland

weather4 months ago•23 min saved

Meteor blaze over Lake Erie rattles Cleveland

A meteor exploded north of Cleveland over Lake Erie, producing a loud boom and ground shaking; the event was reported across multiple states, logged by the GOES East satellite as a fall lightning signature, and a Lorain County seismometer recorded ground motion while the meteor’s size and trajectory remain unknown.

via The Washington Post|

#astronomy #cleveland-ohio #lake-erie