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  • Rare meteor storm may be triggered by comet Thursday night (Peak 11:50 p.m EDT)

    11/20/2019 12:37:55 PM PST · by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget · 33 replies
    WTHR ^ | Nov 19th, 2019 | WTHR.com staff
    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...