American Meteor Society
Viewing the 2024 Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower
Meteor showers on Earth are caused by streams of meteoroids hitting our atmosphere. These meteoroids are sand and…
Archive: Radio Observing
Earth-grazer Fireball with Radio Reflections over New Mexico
On October 25th 3:42am MDT (09:42 UT), amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft caught an Earth-grazer Fireball over his personal observatory "Heliotown" in Lamy, New Mexico. Earth-grazing fireballs are a bright meteors that enter Earth’s atmosphere at a very shallow angle and skim along the top of the atmosphere. Some actually re-enter space. Ashcraft combines all-sky video camera observations with a...