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Perseid Meteor Shower TONIGHT! by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Thanks to a new moon, this week’s Perseid meteor shower is expected to be one of the best in years, and NASA Television will bring viewers a front row seat!

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will broadcast a live program about this year’s Perseid meteor shower from 10 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 12 to 2 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. The event will highlight the science behind the Perseids, as well as NASA research related to meteors and comets. The program will air on NASA TV and NASA’s UStream channel.

The Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years and are associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years. Every August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet’s orbital debris. This debris field -- mostly created hundreds of years ago -- consists of bits of ice and dust shed from the comet which burn up in Earth’s atmosphere to create one of the premier meteor showers of the year.

The best opportunity to see the Perseid meteor shower is during the dark, pre-dawn hours of Aug. 13. The Perseids streak across the sky from many directions, with theoretical rates as high as 100 per hour. The last time the Perseids peak coincided with a new moon was in 2007, making this one of the best potential viewings in years.

Special guests on the live NASA TV broadcast include meteor experts Bill Cooke, Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw, all of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, located at Marshall. They will provide on-air commentary, as well as answer questions online. Also scheduled to join the broadcast are experts from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, the American Meteor Society and others.

Anyone can join in the conversation by tweeting questions to @NASA_Marshall with the hashtag #askNASA. Social media users may also post questions to Marshall’s Facebook page by replying to the Aug. 12 Perseid Q-and-A post.

Watch a NASA ScienceCast video on the 2015 Perseid meteor shower here:

www.youtube.com/user/ScienceAtNASA

For more information on NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, visit:

www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/home/

For the latest in “Watch the Sky” news, visit:

www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/watchtheskies/

Greenland ice sheet is changing by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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At 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) on Friday, Aug. 28, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will host a live TV program about agency research into how and why the massive Greenland ice sheet is changing. The event features scientists actively conducting field work in Greenland, along with extensive video footage of their work performed over this summer.

Panelists include: Tom Wagner (cryosphere program scientist with NASA's Earth Science Division), Laurence Smith (chair of the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Geography), Mike Bevis (professor of geodynamics at Ohio State University in Columbus), Sophie Nowicki (physical scientist at Goddard), and Josh Willis (JPL).

The Friday program will air live on NASA TV and stream online at: www.nasa.gov/nasatv. To ask questions via social media during the televised event, use the hashtag #askNASA.

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Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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CLOUDY with a chance of NOT SEEING the Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse?

WATCH Live here: bit.ly/1LfspfW

No worries, we've got you've covered. Click on over to the live stream starting at 8:00 p.m. until at least 11:30 p.m. EDT broadcast from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., with a live feed from the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, Calif. Mitzi Adams, a NASA solar physicist at Marshall will discuss the eclipse and answer questions on Twitter. To ask a question, use ‪#‎askNASA‬.

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Best Perseid Meteor Show - TONIGHT! by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Flickr friends, Dont miss out on one of the best Perseid Meteor Showers you will see in years!

Join the Tweetchat @NASA_Marshall and use #askNASA to ask questions, or watch the LIVE Broadcast of Marshall experts answering questions from 9pm-1am CDT (10pm-2am EDT)

Dont miss it!

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@NASAGoddard : RT @NASA: Join us for tonight's #Geminids meteor shower! Our experts answer #askNASA Qs 11pm-3am ET: https://t.co/7Z1mJWlmWN https://t.co/5b054oOcCn by Raymond Bandril

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@NASAGoddard : RT @NASA: Join us for tonight's #Geminids meteor shower! Our experts answer #askNASA Qs 11pm-3am ET: t.co/7Z1mJWlmWN t.co/5b054oOcCn (via Twitter twitter.com/NASAGoddard/status/676119141195976704)

Perseids-Hiram College, OH by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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A confirmed Perseid meteor as observed by a NASA meteor camera at Hiram College in Ohio.

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Perseid Meteor Shower TONIGHT! by Amida Collection

Thanks to a new moon, this week’s Perseid meteor shower is expected to be one of the best in years, and NASA Television will bring viewers a front row seat!

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will broadcast a live program about this year’s Perseid meteor shower from 10 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 12 to 2 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. The event will highlight the science behind the Perseids, as well as NASA research related to meteors and comets. The program will air on NASA TV and NASA’s UStream channel.

The Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years and are associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years. Every August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet’s orbital debris. This debris field -- mostly created hundreds of years ago -- consists of bits of ice and dust shed from the comet which burn up in Earth’s atmosphere to create one of the premier meteor showers of the year.

The best opportunity to see the Perseid meteor shower is during the dark, pre-dawn hours of Aug. 13. The Perseids streak across the sky from many directions, with theoretical rates as high as 100 per hour. The last time the Perseids peak coincided with a new moon was in 2007, making this one of the best potential viewings in years.

Special guests on the live NASA TV broadcast include meteor experts Bill Cooke, Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw, all of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, located at Marshall. They will provide on-air commentary, as well as answer questions online. Also scheduled to join the broadcast are experts from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, the American Meteor Society and others.

Anyone can join in the conversation by tweeting questions to @NASA_Marshall with the hashtag #askNASA. Social media users may also post questions to Marshall’s Facebook page by replying to the Aug. 12 Perseid Q-and-A post.

Watch a NASA ScienceCast video on the 2015 Perseid meteor shower here:

www.youtube.com/user/ScienceAtNASA

For more information on NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, visit:

www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/home/

For the latest in “Watch the Sky” news, visit:

www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/watchtheskies/

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