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Sign up to receive your own updates November 2018 Meteor Showers Did you know that a shooting star isn’t really a star at all? The streak of light racing across the sky, and thought by people to be a shooting star, is actually called a meteor. Sometimes the Earth passes through an area of sky that has a larger concentration of meteors and we have what is known as a meteor shower. There are at least 2 more opportunities to see a significant meteor shower before the end of the year – in mid November and mid December. Read on to learn about the science behind the phenomenon as you plan to see one of these cosmic shows for yourself. Related Articles: Related Websites: Eyes in the Sky Comets, Meteorites, and Asteroids Space Telescopes StarDate Online: Meteor Shower NASA: Meteors and Meteorites National Geographic: Meteor Showers 101 Teaching Resources: Related Categories: It's TRUE! Upcoming Webinars: Meteoroids speed through space more than 2,500 times faster than a baseball fast pitch! Learn more about getting the most out of TrueFlix by attending one of our upcoming online training sessions: Monday, November 5th 2018 3:00-4:00 pm EST Wednesday, November 28th 2018 11:00 am-12:00 pm EST Thursday, December 6th 2018 12:00-1:00 pm EST November 8 is National STEM Day! Try some hands-on science experiments with these units:

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