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☆ The Quadrantids are the first meteor shower of 2024. Here's where to look and the best time to see it.
  + stars: | 2024-01-03 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The first meteor shower of the year is here. NASA says the Quadrantids are considered some of the best meteor showers that appear each year. When the two meet, the debris should rain down toward Earth at 90,000 mph, producing a meteor shower called the Quadrantids. NASA said the Quadrantids are one of the most spectacular annual meteor showers. harpazo_hope/Getty ImagesThe Quadrantids can produce bright fireballs and are one of, if not the, strongest meteor showers of the year, according to the American Meteor Society.
Persons: —, Space.com, Tuttle, didn't Organizations: NASA, Service, American Meteor Society, AMS Locations: North America, Lowell
☆ Watch the Leonids Meteor Shower Reach Its Peak This Weekend
  + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Adam Mann | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But on special dates scattered throughout the year, skywatchers can catch a multitude of flares as meteor showers burst in the darkness. The next event is the Leonids, which lasts until Dec. 2 but reaches its peak tonight, on Friday, Nov. 17, into the morning of Saturday, Nov. 18. Meteor showers occur when our planet runs into the debris fields left behind by icy comets or rocky asteroids going around the sun. The regularity of orbital mechanics means that any given meteor shower happens at roughly the same time each year, with the changing phases of the bright moon being the main variable affecting their visibility. This year’s show should be a more placid 15 meteors per hour or so, as the Earth hits debris fields released from its parent body, comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
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☆ The Leonid meteor shower is peaking tonight, creating up to 15 shooting stars per hour. Here's how to watch.
  + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The Leonid meteor shower is due to peak between Friday night and the early hours of dawn Saturday. The Leonids could offer up to 15 fireballs an hour, per NASA. AdvertisementThe Leonid meteor shower is peaking tonight and could offer skygazers around the world the chance to see up to 15 fireballs an hour. The viewing conditions should be "quite favorable" as the moon will be in its first quarter, so it is unlikely to outshine the meteors with its glare, the Royal Museums Greenwich said on its website. While NASA states the Leonids usually offer up to 15 fireballs per hour, the Royal Museums Greenwich is slightly less optimistic, as it expects only up to 10 fireballs an hour.
Persons: —, Comet Tempel Organizations: NASA, Service, Royal Museums Greenwich Locations: London
☆ Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend
  + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —Up next for end-of-year celestial spectaculars is the Leonid meteor shower, set to produce bright meteors with persistent trains streaking across the night sky. The moon will be 23% full on the night of the shower’s peak, according to the American Meteor Society. Leo is the meteor shower’s radiant, which is the point where the phenomenon appears to originate from, she explained. As the comet travels around the sun, it leaves a trail of rocks and dust that appears as the annual Leonid meteor shower when Earth moves through the debris while on its own orbital path. “Getting out and seeing any meteor shower for the first time is always fun,” she said.
Persons: CNN —, Dr, Sharon Morsink, Leo, Morsink, you’re, Tuttle, “, ”, ●, Ursids Organizations: CNN, University of Alberta, American Meteor Society, NASA, Leonid, Farmers Locations: Edmonton , Alberta
☆ The teacher fired after speaking out when her 1st graders were told they couldn't sing 'Rainbowland' is now suing her school district
  + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Wisconsin school district wouldn't allow first graders to sing "Rainbowland," a song about acceptance. Tempel is now suing the district, arguing it violated her freedom of speech. Attorneys for Melissa Tempel filed the lawsuit earlier this week, alleging the School District of Waukesha violated Tempel's First Amendment rights. "I am devastated that I am not returning to school today," Tempel said in a statement, released by her attorneys. A spokesperson for the School District of Waukesha did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Persons: Melissa Tempel, —, she's, Tempel, Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton, retaliating, James Sebert, Sebert Organizations: Service, District, Heyer Elementary, School District Locations: Wisconsin, Wall, Silicon, Waukesha
☆ Wisconsin lawmaker from the city where a teacher was suspended for playing Miley Cyrus' 'Rainbowland' now wants to make it so that teachers can be sued for 'obscene' books
  + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Wisconsin lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow parents to sue teachers over "obscene" books. In April, the district suspended a teacher who played the song "Rainbowland," which is about acceptance. The first bill recommends that the state strip school employees and teachers of their protections against prosecution for "displaying obscene material," the release says. The other bill would prohibit the use of public funds to purchase "obscene material." In April, the Waukesha School District suspended Melissa Tempel after she included "Rainbowland," as part of a planned performance with her first-grade class.
☆ Wisconsin First Grade Class Banned From Singing Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton’s ‘Rainbowland’
  + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
First-graders at a Wisconsin school have been banned from singing “Rainbowland” by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton at a concert after school officials said the song “could be deemed controversial.”Melissa Tempel , 44 years old, and her students had been rehearsing the tune for three days, she said, singing melodies about how nice it would be to live in a world without judgment. Then officials in the Waukesha School District said last week that the first-graders couldn’t sing “Rainbowland” at a school concert in May.
☆ Leonid meteor shower: Fast, bright meteors light up the night sky
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —Known as some of the fastest meteors around, the Leonids blaze across the night sky annually during the month of November. Historically, they are considered to be one of the most impressive meteor showers on record, largely due to the meteor storm they form roughly every 33 years, causing thousands of meteors to rain down in the night sky. On Thursday night, the shower is expected to peak at 7 p.m. The Leonid meteor shower is active through December 2, alongside the tail end of the North Taurid meteor shower. Around their peak, sky gazers could potentially observe 10 to 15 meteors per hour.
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