Asteroid Shower

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Asteroid shower. The orionid meteor shower occurs every year in october when comet halley enters the solar system. The orionids are a medium strength shower that sometimes reaches high strength activity. The interactive meteor shower sky map shows the position of the radiant in the night sky above any location.

During the asteroid shower a large amount of phosphorus was delivered to earth and huge amounts of volatile elements such as carbon nitrogen and water were supplied on the surface of the dry. For instance the radiant for the leonid meteor shower is in the constellation leo. Although the meteors can appear anywhere in the sky if you trace their paths the meteors in each shower appear to rain into the sky from the same region.

In exceptional years such as 2006 2009 the peak rates were on par with the perseids 50 75 per hour. As the earth passes through the debris of ice and dust the bits collide with our atmosphere before disintegrating and creating fiery explosions of light. Click and drag to explore other parts of the sky.

In 2020 the peak will occur after midnight on oct. The meteor shower usually occurs from oct. Meteor showers are named for the constellation that coincides with this region in the sky a spot known as the radiant.

In a normal year the orionids produce 10 20 shower members at maximum. What is a meteor shower.