EarthSky News - Oct 16 - Moon and Planets, Meteor Shower, Ringed Dwarf Planet

October 16 Moon and Planets, Meteor Shower, Ringed Dwarf Planet by:

Before dawn … Keep watching moon, Venus, Mars The best views of the moon and planets before dawn are happening now! Look for Orionid meteors this month Details on the annual Orionid meteor shower. How and when to watch. In 2017, the peak morning is probably October 21, but start watching now, before dawn. Egg-shaped Haumea has a ring Dwarf planet Haumea - which orbits our sun in Pluto's realm of the solar system - has become the first trans-Neptunian object known to be encircled by a ring. Intense storms batter Saturn moon Titan “I would have thought these would be once-a-millennium events, if even that,” said a researcher. Instead, the storms on Titan happen about once a Saturn-year, creating massive floods in an otherwise-desert terrain.

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Before dawn … Keep watching moon, Venus, Mars Venus is some 200 times brighter than Mars. Click in for a diagram showing their relative positions in orbit around the sun right now.

Big Dipper over Horseshoe Spring, Utah The famous Big Dipper asterism, caught mirrored in Horseshoe Spring, one of many natural hot springs in Utah’s West Desert. Photo by Marc Toso of AncientSkys.com. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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