NASA Begins Hunt for New Meteor Showers

NASA Science News for November 10, 2008
NASA astronomers have set up a monitoring station to scan the night sky for unknown or unexpected meteor showers--and they're finding more than they bargained for. In only two months of observing, the newly commissioned system has captured a flurry of meteors from an unknown comet and an object from the asteroid belt exploding like 500 lb of TNT.
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Seeing as it's meteor season right now, this news is well timed!
Great news too since it will help in our defense against rouge asteroids and comets, and has already found at least one new meteor shower