Saturday Meteor Shower

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Saturday meteor shower. What is a meteor shower. Most meteor showers are spawned by comets. As a comet orbits the sun it sheds an icy dusty debris stream along its orbit.

See meteor shower animation to find out visibility conditions for viewing the meteor shower from your location. Plan ahead here are dates of major meteor showers. The interactive meteor shower sky map shows the position of the radiant in the night sky above any location.

So for example the orionids meteor shower which occurs in october each year appear to be originating near the constellation orion the hunter. The perseid meteor shower and the geminid meteor shower. Note that the meteor shower dates do not change much from year to year though the peak of a shower may vary by a day or two.

A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate or originate from one point in the night sky called radiant these meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering earth s atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Although the meteors can appear anywhere in the. New meteor shower interactive sky map.

A meteor shower is when a number of meteors or shooting stars flash across the night sky seemingly from the same point. Meteor shower calendar 2020 2021. Meteor showers are named for the constellation where the meteors appear to be coming from.

See meteor shower animation to find out visibility conditions for viewing the meteor shower from your location. 2020 meteor showers calendar. Click and drag to explore other parts of the sky.