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Tonights brand-new meteor shower could turn into a 1,000-meteors-per-hour storm
2014-05-23 16:51:38| Extremetech
Fellow Earthlings! We may be in for a stellar delight tonight. For the first time ever, Earth will pass through the tail of comet 209/P LINEAR, creating a brand new, never-before-seen meteor shower. Because we don't know anything about them, the Camelopardalids have the potential to be one of the most dramatic meteor showers ever -- a so-called meteor storm -- or, on the other hand, there might not be more than a few dozen shooting stars per hour. There's only one way to find out: Stay up late tonight and look to the skies!
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Meteor aims to make JavaScript programming fun again
2013-12-16 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Meteor is billed as an open source JavaScript platform for quickly building Web apps.
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BBC: Chelyabinsk meteor - space rock hit-rate 'underestimated'
2013-11-06 22:20:59| PortlandOnline
News story posted to bbc.co.uk November 6, 2013.
Meteor lights up sky over Southern states
2013-09-11 02:26:29| Telecom - Topix.net
Federal prosecutors say two former Cox Communications employees accused of embezzling more than $940,000 from the company have been indicted by a federal grand jury.
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Relive Earth's wild history of meteor strikes
2013-05-09 02:57:28| CNET News.com
In the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a meteor! This nifty graph lets you explore confirmed meteor strikes on Earth. [Read more]
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