Be protected!
Posted on 11/20/2019 12:37:55 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — Thursday night is setting up to be a rare event.
There's a chance that the alpha Monocerotid meteor shower could become a meteor storm, according to Eseko Lyytinen and Peter Jenniskens, two meteor scientistss who have been studying this particular meteor shower.
If the meteor storm does happen, it will be the first alpha Monocerotids meteor storm since 1995, when it produced rates of around 400 meteors per hour.
According to the American Meteor Society, the storm may be here and gone quickly — usually over within an hour. AMS reports that the storm would reach its peak at 11:50 p.m. on Nov. 21, according to EarthSky.
A meteor storm is when a dust trail from a meteor shower is small and dense. The result is hundreds and even thousands of meteors burning up in just minutes," according to the National Weather Service.
Even if the outburst doesn't happen, stargazers should still be able to see up to 10 "sporadic" meteors per hour, according to AMS.
The article says 11:50 pm. That is eastern time!
More here, https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/tag/alpha-monocerotid-meteor-shower/
And still Trump refuses to take ownership for global warming. How dare he!
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SMOD? Mercifully. Haji gets his fondest wish granted?
Here is the safe version
Every meteor event it’s the same story. “Don’t miss it!!! best this century!”
I’m sleeping thanks
6 per minute? If you have clear skies and are up at 11:50pm EDT step out for a minute or two. Peak should be quite a few more than 6 a minute. Might be spectacular. (wear a helmet just in case ;-) Wish we didn’t have low clouds in the forecast for tomorrow night.
those aren’t meteors...those are pods!
Very cool. Hoping for clear skies.
4 drumsticks > 2
Day of the Triffids PART II
Uzis!
additional:
Mysterious comet will cause a rare ‘Unicorn’ meteor storm this week. Here’s how to watch.
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Updated 6:17 AM ET, Wed November 20, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/20/world/rare-unicorn-meteor-shower-scn-trnd/index.html
> Two meteor scientists, Peter Jenniskens and Esko Lyytinen, shared their prediction for an outburst by the alpha Monocertoid meteor shower on November 21 or 22, depending on your location... The best views will be in South America, eastern North America, western Europe and northwestern Africa. The radiant point of the meteors is in the Monoceros, the Unicorn constellation, near Orion the Hunter... during a normal shower it only produces a few meteors each night. The large outbursts of this shower previously occurred in 1925, 1935, 1985 and 1995, with the outburst being a complete surprise for each of those years, except when it was predicted in 1995, according to the American Meteor Society. The meteor shower comes from the dust trail of an unknown comet... During the 1995 outburst, the hourly rate of meteors was around 400. If the prediction is correct and that happens again, skygazers can expect to see around seven meteors streaking across the sky per minute. But the rate could actually mean two to three meteors close together and then another minute before activity picks up again. They’ll be moving at about 140,927 miles per hour.
“Night of the Comet” was so bad, it was hilarious.
My daughters were young teens and absolutely loved it.
I saw a video interview of the director who stated the “empty downtown LA” scene was filmed early Christmas morning when no one was on the streets...because the budget was severely limited.
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