Meteor shower tonight: How to see meteor shower tonight Watch Online Tau Herculids
Meteor shower tonight: According to the American Meteor Society, astronomers estimate that the Earth passes through some of the debris left by the 1995 disintegration of the Jupiter family comet 73P / Schwassmann-Wachmann, also known as SW3.
The Tau Herculids meteor shower is visible in the early hours of Monday, May 30, to the early hours of Tuesday, May 31st. While experts warn that this could be an “all or nothing” event, the Tau Hercules shower has the potential to become a “meteor storm,” capable of blasting up to 1,000 meteors per hour.
As far as scientists are aware, from the night of May 30 through the early hours of May 31, the Earth passes through the debris of a broken comet called 73P / Schwassmann-Wachmann, or SW3, ”NASA said. meteor shower tonight.
“If the pieces are ejected at twice the speed of the normal – fast enough to reach Earth – we could get a meteor,” said Lee Mohan of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. “The Spitzer observations published in 2009 suggest that at least some of the pieces are moving fast enough. meteor shower tonight.
Tau Herculids meteorites occur from May 19 and June 19. What’s different this time around is that SW3 has continued to crumble since 1995 and its debris can move so fast that it hits the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA.
Robert Lunsford of the AMS and the International Meteor Society suggested that astronomers would choose the darkest possible place and begin searching for meteorites at about 10:45 p.m. If predictions are off.
Will a new #meteorshower, the tau Herculids, put on a spectacular show the night of May 30-31? Maybe, maybe not. But if you have clear weather, the moonless sky should be beautiful for stargazing anyway.
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