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  • The source of this annual October meteor display, called the Draconid meteor shower, is dust and debris leftover from Comet Giacobini-Zinner.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The same cloud produced storms of Draconid meteors in 1933 and 1946. 1st 11h Mars 0.1˚ S of Praesepe4th 04h First quarter8th 21h Outburst of Draconids meteors?

    Starwatch: The October night sky 2011

  • Tonight is the peak of the northern Draconid meteor shower, whose radiant is near the westering constellation of Hercules.

    Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – October 9-11, 2009 | Universe Today 2009

  • Draconids, and cannot be rightly attached to either; for it is Draconid in structure and affinity -- Vestal in form -- and I don't see how to get the connection of the three families rightly expressed without taking the

    Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • Draconidæ out of the groups belonging to the dark Kora, and placing them next the Vestals, with the Monachæ between; for indeed Linaria and several other Draconid forms are entirely innocent and beautiful, and even the

    Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • Oct. 8 - Draconidmeteor shower: Many meteor experts are predicting a good chance that an outburst of up to many hundreds of Draconid meteors will take place.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Editor's note: If you snap amazing Draconid meteor photos you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery on SPACE.com, please contact managing editor Tariq Malik at

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • This year, the peak of the Draconid meteor shower will not be visible from the United States because it will occur primarily during the daylight hours.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Draconid meteor shower, created by bits of the comet Giacobini-Zinner, hit its peak.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • These Draconid meteors are expected to peak between 3 and 5 p.m.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By MARCIA DUNN 2011

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