BALTIMORE, MD—The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak tonight, Aug. 12, into the early hours of Wednesday, Aug. 13, delighting skywatchers across the Northern Hemisphere, including those in the Mid-Atlantic region. Despite a waning gibbous moon that may dim fainter meteors, astronomers expect up to 50 to 100 “shooting stars” per hour under ideal conditions, with 10 to 20 […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A meteor burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Monday evening creating a magnificent fireball in the skies over Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other states in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The fireball occurred at just after 7:45 p.m. EST on November 11, 2024 and resulted in over 230 reports to the American Meteor Society. Reports immediately began pouring in from Connecticut, […]
BALTIMORE, MD—What’s that, up in the sky? It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Actually, it was a meteor. A bright fireball that streaked across East Coast skies on Thursday, November 2, was, in fact, a meteor, NASA has confirmed. Numerous eyewitnesses in the states of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire have filed reports […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Many mid-Atlantic residents were startled by a large meteor that created a fireball in the sky on Sunday night. Hundreds of eyewitnesses have filed reports of a bright meteor observed at 9:23 p.m. on September 3, according to NASA Meteor Watch. The event was also captured by several publicly accessible cameras in the region and at extreme range by […]