NASA Begins Hunt for New Meteor Showers

It started out as a normal day. NASA astronomer and meteor expert Bill Cooke woke up, dressed, and went to his office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Colleagues greeted him as usual, there was no hum of excitement.

And then he checked his email.

"That's how I found out—I'd slept through a meteor outburst!"

During the dark hours before dawn on Sept. 9, 2008, a surprising flurry of meteors had showered the skies above Huntsville, Alabama. More than two dozen of them were fireballs brighter than Jupiter or Venus; a few even cast shadows. Cooke like everyone else he knew was sound asleep and saw nothing.

But Cooke's all-sky Sentinel camera located on the grounds of the Marshall Space Flight Center recorded the whole thing and, when it was done, left him an email summarizing the outburst.

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