A Capricornid meteor, traveling at 54,000 miles per hour, was captured by NASA cameras at the Marshall Space Flight Center on August 1st, 2013.
The Alpha Capricornids meteor shower takes place as early as July 15 and continues until about 10 August. The meteor shower was discovered by Hungarian astronomer Miklos von Konkoly-Thege in 1871. The Alpha Capricornids meteor shower has infrequent but relatively bright meteors, with some fireballs. The parent body is comet 169P/NEAT.
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