November 19, 2006
The night sky on your birthday is never quite the same twice — the planets shift, the constellations drift, the Moon wears a different phase.
The Car, the Hole, and the Peekskill Meteorite
Birthday · November 19, 2006
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APOD published November 19, 2006. Credit: Pierre Thomas (LST), ENS Lyon. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
The Peekskill meteor of 1992 was captured on 16 independent videos and then struck a car. Documented as brighter than the full Moon, the spectacular fireball crossed parts of several US states during its 40 seconds of glory before landing in Peekskill, New York. The resulting meteorite, pictured here, is composed of dense rock and has the size and mass of an extremely heavy bowling ball. If you are lucky enough to find a meteorite just after impact, do not pick it up -- parts of it are likely to be either very hot or very cold. In this weekend's Leonid meteor shower, few meteors, if any, are expected to hit the ground.
Image credit: Pierre Thomas (LST), ENS Lyon