Meteor Shower Alert: It's Going to Rain Down Shooting Stars & fireballs All Month Long

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Published on Nov 2, 2018


Meteor Shower WATCH: There are four meteor showers this month. Leonids, Southern/Northern Taurids & November Orionids Set to Light Up the Night Skies. The South Taurids should produce their greatest number of meteors shortly after midnight on November 5. The meteoroid streams that feed the South (and North) Taurids are very spread out and diffuse. The Taurids are well known for having a high percentage of fireballs, or exceptionally bright meteors. https://earthsky.org/tonight/south-ta... Late night November 11 until dawn November 12, 2016, the North Taurids. The slow bright Taurids are visible before midnight for a week centered on November 12. The Leonids produced meteor storms of hundreds to thousands of meteors per hour at the peak each year from 1998 to 2002. An amazing night in 1966, the meteors were falling like rain. This year they'll be visible at their regular rates, perhaps 15 per hour. The annual Leonids Meteor shower, derived from material left by repeated passages of periodic Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, runs from November 5th to December 3rd. At the peak, before dawn on November 17, expect to see about 15 meteors per hour, many with persistent trains. A waxing gibbous moon will brighten the sky, but will set at around midnight, leaving a darker pre-dawn sky. https://www.space.com/16149-night-sky... https://earthsky.org/tonight/radiant-... The Orionids peak on November 28th. The radiant is near Orion's head. The constellation Orion is familiar to most skywatchers. This stream is active from November 7 through December 17, with maximum activity occurring on November 29. Rates should be near 5 per hour as seen from mid-northern latitudes and 3 as seen from sites south of the equator. With an entry velocity of 43 km/sec., most activity from this radiant would be of medium speed. https://www.imo.net/meteor-activity-o... Clips, images credit: ESO, ESA/HUBBLE & NASA/JPL Music credit: YouTube Audio Library Epic Unease by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 2) Blue Macaw - Quincas Moreira