July 24, 2024  

livescience.com – Lowell Observatory – ‘Double’ meteor shower will light up the skies next week. Here’s how to watch.

“Stargazers will soon be able to witness a “double” meteor shower as both the Alpha Capricornids and the Southern Delta Aquariids peak next week.The twin-skywatching event is “just an amazing coincidence,” Nicholas Moskovitz, a planetary astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, told Live Science…”

 

Read the full article here: https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/double-meteor-shower-will-light-up-the-skies-next-week-heres-how-to-watch

July 24, 2024  

the-sun.com – Lowell Observatory – SKY FIRE! Rare double meteor shower visible in days in ‘amazing coincidence’ – when to see fireballs but don’t make phone mistake

“It’s expected that the bulk of the dust linked to the shower will be in Earth‘s path in the 24th century.The doubled-up shower was called “an amazing coincidence” by planetary astronomer Nicholas Moskovitz, of Arizona’s Lowell Observatory, speaking to Live Science, adding that it was “a little bit unusual” to see joined-up peaks like this…”

 

Read the full article here: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/12008216/meteor-shower-alpha-capricornids-southern-delta-aquariids-double/

July 24, 2024  

smithsonianmag.com – Lowell Observatory – How to Watch the Southern Delta Aquariids Meteor Shower

“Meteors are like nature’s fireworks,” Nick Moskovitz, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, tells Smithsonian magazine in an email. “They are ephemeral and beautiful. And unlike other phenomena in astronomy, they don’t require any special equipment to observe. A little patience, a clear, dark sky and some luck are all you need…”

 

Read the full article here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-to-watch-the-southern-delta-aquariids-meteor-shower-180984759/

July 24, 2024  

yahoo.com – Lowell Observatory – ‘Double’ meteor shower will light up the skies next week. Here’s how to watch.

“Stargazers will soon be able to witness a “double” meteor shower as both the Alpha Capricornids and the Southern Delta Aquariids peak next week.The twin-skywatching event is “just an amazing coincidence,” Nicholas Moskovitz, a planetary astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, told Live Science…”

 

Read the full article here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/double-meteor-shower-light-skies-100024362.html

July 12, 2024  

patch.com – Landry’s | Mastro’s Beverly Hills – Mastro’s Provides Perfect Options for Summer Dining

“Mastro’s locations nationwide are offering a wide variety of dishes perfect for summer dinners.

Mastro’s Beverly Hills is offering a number of decadent special caviar and truffle dishes including oysters on the half shell with caviar, caviar avocado tacos, wild mushroom and black truffle gnocchi and truffle butter sauteed wild mushrooms…”

Read the full article here: https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/mastro-s-provides-perfect-options-summer-dining

July 8, 2024  

nytimes.com – Lowell Observatory – Earth Just Reached Its Greatest Distance From the Sun.

“On the other hand, our home planet has an eccentricity of only 0.017. “Earth’s orbit is fairly circular,” said Larry Wasserman, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. “If you drew it on a piece of paper to scale, you probably wouldn’t notice it was slightly flattened.”

 

Read the full article here:  https://www.nytimes.com/article/aphelion-earth-sun-distance.html