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The Quadrantids meteor shower will be most visible tonight. The meteors are caused by space debris from a metallic asteroid called 2003 E H 1. Because of the nearly full moon, the meteors will be harder to see. They will peak earlier in the evening but you can watch them all night long.
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SETI, which stands for search for extraterrestrial intelligence, will use its Breakthrough Listen program to study an unusual asteroid. They will use the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope to listen for alien signals from ‘Oumuamua, the cigar-shaped interstellar object spotted crossing our solar system last month. What would you say to an alien?
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Scientists have spotted the first ever interstellar asteroid. It is traveling through our solar system at 200,000 miles per hour, but it came from another solar system. The asteroid is a dark red rock shaped like a 400 meter cigar. That’s 15,748 inches long! It was first detected by a telescope in Hawaii so they named it the Hawaiian word for a messenger from afar arriving first, ‘Oumuamua.
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