It's going to be fun watching the news reporters try to pronounce that one.
That will be only a down payment in reparations for comet Ison.
Exciting! Thanks for posting.
Viewing satisfaction is inversely proportional to media hyped expectations. Hoping this pans out, but not holding my breath.
I’ve seen (barely, or almost) too many fizzled “possible” comets of the century/lifetime to get excited about a hypothetical new meteor shower of “possible” storm proportions.
I’ve also seen some fantastic displays, especially of Leonids, and Perseids; and 3 or 4 truely stunning comets; and a couple of daytime/twilight fireballs: it isn’t the sky that disappoints, but the failure to come anywhere near what the hype leads one to expect to see.
Going out and laying in a field in the summer, and seeing a dozen nice meteors in a 90 or so minute period is awesome...unless all the sites and articles kept insisting there “should be” 40-60 per hour.
Oh, wait! There WERE 40-60 per hour, but the hypers failed to mention that most wouldn’t be visible to the naked eye; but if you listened in on the meteor radar broadcast, you could definitely hear their ‘piiiiings!’ Watching a meteor shower on the radio is really pretty disappointing to the average viewer.
I’ll be vacationing in the desert next week. I plan to see this one.
Cool. Thanks.