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Draconid Meteor Outburst

Subject: Draconid Meteor Outburst
From: NASA Science News <snglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:43:06 -0500

NASA Science News for Oct. 4, 2011

Forecasters say Earth is heading for a stream of dust from Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. A close encounter with the comet's fragile debris could spark a meteor outburst over parts of our planet on October 8th.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/04oct_draconids/

A video version of this story is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNqeftciRFA

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