lundi 5 mai 2014

New meteor shower?

According to Spaceweather.com, we are to cross an old orbit of comet 209P/LINEAR. They very cautiously predict a possible meteor shower or maybe, maybe, maybe as meteor storm for the morning of 5/24/14.

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Nuts. It is from their May 2 page.









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PUNY COMET, MAJOR METEOR SHOWER? On May 24th, Earth will pass through a cloud of debris from periodic comet 209P/LINEAR. The result could be a new meteor shower. Forecasters expect meteor rates as high as 200 per hour when Earth crosses the debris zone. There has even been talk of a possible meteor storm. These are lofty predictions for a comet that looks so puny:








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