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  • Meteoroid streams are traditionally by-products of comets, but in this case the comet had not been confirmed!

    The Coma Berenicid Meteor Shower Peaks | Universe Today 2010

  • A wide-field meteor camera, one of many in a network NASA uses to track fireballs, recorded the "spectacular meteor breaking up in Earth's atmosphere," according to a blog post by meteor scientist Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office at the Marshall center.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • EST 0340 GMT on Nov. 18, but a luminous third quarter moon could outshine even the brightest meteors, said Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "This year, folks will get a nice double whammy with the lunar eclipse on the 10th, and then the Geminid peak on the night of the 13th, but it would be nice if we could just turn off the moon after the eclipse," Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsvilla, Ala., told SPACE.com.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • In a post-meteor shower wrap up, Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said that clouds blocked much of the camera views Tuesday night.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "The bits from the comet are not subjected to the same forces that the comet is," said Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environment Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Earthgrazers are meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond," says Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • "Earthgrazers are meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond," says Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Meteoroid is a very easy to use listed QuickTime movie player that includes sound only files, aac, mp3, etc.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • Meteoroid: A meteoroid is a solid piece of interplanetary debris moving through space.

    Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage 2010

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