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Here is something new - May Camelopardalids.
This is a new meteor shower due on 24th May . Here is the link to the details : A New Meteor Shower in May? - NASA Science
"The shower is the May Camelopardalids, caused by dust from periodic comet 209P/LINEAR. No one has ever seen it before, but this year the Camelopardalids could put on a display that rivals the well-known Perseids of August.
"Some forecasters have predicted more than 200 meteors per hour," says Cooke.
Comet 209P/LINEAR was discovered in February 2004 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project, a cooperative effort of NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, and the US Air Force. It is a relatively dim comet that dips inside the orbit of Earth once every five years as it loops around the sun. " - quote from the NASA paper.
Hope it stops raining though!
Olly and the Team
Here is something new - May Camelopardalids.
This is a new meteor shower due on 24th May . Here is the link to the details : A New Meteor Shower in May? - NASA Science
"The shower is the May Camelopardalids, caused by dust from periodic comet 209P/LINEAR. No one has ever seen it before, but this year the Camelopardalids could put on a display that rivals the well-known Perseids of August.
"Some forecasters have predicted more than 200 meteors per hour," says Cooke.
Comet 209P/LINEAR was discovered in February 2004 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project, a cooperative effort of NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, and the US Air Force. It is a relatively dim comet that dips inside the orbit of Earth once every five years as it loops around the sun. " - quote from the NASA paper.
Hope it stops raining though!
Olly and the Team
