Nasa Meteor Shower

12 nasa s marshall space flight center in huntsville alabama will host a live ustream broadcast about the perseid meteor shower.

Nasa meteor shower. Unlike most meteor showers which originate from comets the geminids originate from an asteroid. One of the year s best meteor showers is well underway as a new video shows. Nasa science games articles and activities for kids.

11 at 9 p m. The event will highlight the science behind the perseids as well as nasa research related to meteors and comets. Learn more about asteroids meteors meteoroids meteorites and comets.

Peak viewing times will vary by a day or two each year. Asteroid 3200 phaethon takes 1 4 years to orbit the sun once. Nasa s marshall space flight center in huntsville alabama will begin its free stream of the meteor shower on facebook live and on nasa tv tonight aug.

Plan ahead here are dates of major meteor showers. Under perfect conditions rates could soar to 200 meteors per hour. So for example the orionids meteor shower which occurs in october each year appear to be originating near the constellation orion the hunter.

Meteor showers are named for the constellation where the meteors appear to be coming from. It is possible that phaethon is a dead comet or a new kind of object being discussed by astronomers called a rock comet. Stargazers among us might have caught the quadrantid meteor shower over the northern hemisphere last weekend but astronauts on board the international space station had a different view of the.

11 12 said bill cooke with nasa s meteoroid environments office in huntsville alabama. What is a meteor shower. Perseid meteor shower to peak overnight the light of the moon will reduce the visibility of some fainter meteors but nasa says it s still worth staying up late or rising very very early on.