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By Shawn Laatsch
Director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center, University of Maine
Shawn Laatsch
The following article was first published in The Conversation, an independent nonprofit news organization that shares faculty expert analysis with a global audience.
As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean littered with ancient debris from the formation of the solar system. For the most part, our world glides silently through space, shielded by Earth's thin atmosphere.
Occasionally, however, the rest of the universe reminds us of its presence with stunning, visceral clarity.
Residents along the Massachu...