the-star-stuff: Meteor Over Persia [Persia no longer exists. Please refer to it as Iran.] (2011) Photograph by Babak Tafreshi, TWAN A “shooting star” streaks the sky over ruins in Damghan—an ancient Iranian city 224 miles northeast of Tehran—early Tuesday during the peak of the 2011 Quadrantid meteor shower. This year, 2012, the Quadrantids peak featured rates of more than a hundred meteors an hour.
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Meteor Over Persia

[Persia no longer exists. Please refer to it as Iran.] (2011)

Photograph by Babak Tafreshi, TWAN

A “shooting star” streaks the sky over ruins in Damghan—an ancient Iranian city 224 miles northeast of Tehran—early Tuesday during the peak of the 2011 Quadrantid meteor shower. This year, 2012, the Quadrantids peak featured rates of more than a hundred meteors an hour.

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