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Dust off the lawn chairs, unroll the sleeping bags, and stock up on bug spray -- the year's best meteor shower peaks on the night of August 11/12. Observers can [...]

Get ready for a spectacular display of meteors when the Perseids peak on August 11/12. The annual Perseid meteor shower is the greatest of the year. Characterized by lots of [...]

As spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, the attentions of many backyard observers return to the sky. Gone are the frigid nights of winter, when a cozy house or apartment [...]

Three meteors have been offered at a Guernsey's auction in New York in Nov 1996 and they failed to achieve their reserve price. The price of meteors rose after an announcement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) that remains of alien bacteria had been found on a Martian meteorite. There are still uncertainties attached to the meteorites such as whether they came from Mars, and whether the remains are bacteria, or whether they are bacteria from Earth.

Reports on the danger of being caught in the open during an electrical storm. Statistics on the number of people that are killed by lightning in Europe and America each year; Ways to protect. INSETS: The unluckiest man in the world.;Kungeblitz..

Features the semiprecious stone, jasper. Description of jasper's cryptocrystalline structure; Formation; Occurrence near iron deposits; Impurities; Uses in ancient art of Egypt, Greece and Rome; Crystalline properties.