Sunday, October 7, 2012
Draconid Meteor Shower
Rain o'er me, meteors! Tonight be on the look out for the DRACONID METEOR shower. According to Space Weather News for Oct. 7, 2012, http://spaceweather.com
Earth is about to pass through a stream of debris from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, source of the annual Draconid meteor shower. Last year, Europeans witnessed a faint but furious outburst of 600 meteors per hour when the shower peaked. No such display is expected this year, but the Draconids are notoriously unpredictable. Northern-hemisphere sky watchers should be alert for slow-moving meteors emerging from the head of the constellation Draco the Dragon (not far from the North Star) on Sunday night, Oct 7th, through Monday morning Oct. 8th.
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