Each one comes with a greeting card showing the bumblebee in flight and telling the story of its trip to the stratosphere and back again.Īll sales support hands-on STEM education The students are selling these unique pendants to support their cosmic ray ballooning program. The rich Cognac-colored pendant measures 3/4 inch and comes with a matching 18-inch sterling silver chain. This bee is made of genuine Baltic Amber with a sterling silver exoskeleton. Here it is floating 115,158 feet above California's Sierra Nevada: On Oct 15, 2022, the students of Earth to Sky Calculus launched this one to the stratosphere onboard a cosmic ray research balloon. You can expect to see a few fireballs per hour streaking from the horns of Taurus-and many more if the Swarm arrives.ĪMBER BUMBLEBEE SPACE PENDANT: Bumblebees don't usually fly so high. Watch for Taurid fireballs during the hours around local midnight. The window of activity can be 2 or 3 weeks long. The last outburst was 7 years ago, which means 2022 could be a Swarm year. In 1975 the Swarm contacted the Moon, making Apollo seismic sensors ring with evidence of objects hitting the lunar surface. Previous encounters with the Swarm in 20 produced showers of fireballs observed around the world. Over the years, Jupiter's gravity has shepherded some of these meteoroids into a well-defined cloud known as the "Taurid Swarm." It visits Earth every 3 or 7 years. Comet 2P/Encke itself may be just one of the fragments.Īn infrared image of Comet 2P/Encke riding a trail of dusty debris from the breakup of its progenitor comet. The breakup produced a mixture of dust and larger bodies that are still present today. Taurid meteors are debris from a giant comet that broke apart in the inner Solar System 10 to 20 thousand years ago. Forecasters believe that a swarm of Taurid meteoroids is approaching Earth, and it could double the usual rate of Halloween Fireballs. "The terminal burst had a magnitude of -6 (about 5 times brighter than Venus)."
"The fireball was easy to see despite the glare from my neighbor's landscape lights," says Curtis. Last night, Jan Curtis caught this one over Oracle, Arizona: They appear every year from late October through early November when Earth passes through a stream of debris associated with Comet 2P/Encke. THE TAURID SWARM IS COMING: Have you ever heard of the "Halloween Fireballs?" Astronomers call them Taurid meteors.
First contact, with auroras, could occur on Oct. Formed by holes in the sun's atmosphere, the cheerful mein is spewing a triple stream of solar wind toward Earth. THIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER (UPDATED): There is a smiley face on the sun today. Neutron counts from the University of Oulu's Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory show that cosmic rays reaching Earth are slowly declining-a result of the yin-yang relationship between the solar cycle and cosmic rays. Credit: SDO/HMIĬosmic Rays Solar Cycle 25 is beginning, and this is reflected in the number of cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere. Sunspot AR3131 is crackling with C-class solar flares.
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