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This picture shows several meteors during a meteor shower. These meteors were seen in 1995, and are part of a lesser-known meteor shower called the Alpha-Monocerotid meteor shower.
Image courtesy S. Molau and P. Jenniskens, NASA Ames Research Center.


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