A GIANT meteor just a second ago

I'm telling you wormwood is inbound. I have a very bad feeling.

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A meteor shower spawned by history's most famous comet will peak this weekend, and the show could be dazzling for observers with clear skies, experts say.

The Orionid meteor shower will reach its zenith overnight from Saturday to Sunday (Oct. 20-21) as Earth plows through debris shed by Halley's Comet on its path around the sun. The most impressive display should come a few hours before dawn Sunday, when our planet hits the densest patch of Halley's detritus.

"Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour," Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said in a statement.

The moon will be just five days removed from its new phase on Saturday night, and it won't show up in the pre-dawn skies early Sunday. So bright moonlight shouldn't drown out many streaking meteors this weekend, researchers said.

The Orionids -- so named because they appear to originate near Betelgeuse, the second-brightest star in the constellation Orion (The Hunter) -- have historically produced about 20 meteors per hour during their peak. However, the shower has been especially impressive in the last half-decade or so, Cooke said.

"Since 2006, the Orionids have been one of the best showers of the year, with counts of 60 or more meteors per hour," he said.

Skywatchers who want to learn more about the Orionids and how to observe them this weekend can join Cooke and his team in a live web chat overnight Saturday, from 11:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. EDT. Go to this web page at the appointed time to participate.

The Orionids are one of two annual meteor showers produced by icy pieces of Halley's Comet. The other shower, called the Eta Aquarids, peaks each year in early May.

Halley's Comet returns to the inner solar system every 75 or 76 years, and it's bright enough to be seen by the naked eye. The comet's last appearance in our skies came in 1986, and the next is due in 2061.

In 1705, English astronomer Edmond Halley suggested that a comet spotted 1682 was the same one that lit up the sky in both 1531 and 1607. He further predicted it would be back in 1758. When this last appearance did in fact come to pass, the comet was given Halley's name.

Need someone who has experience with that meteorscan sight to clarify if this many signals is normal for the amount of time.

And by the way , I also don´t remember so many meteorite showers in a year anyway...

Zeeland? I'm in Maastricht

TBF there is 7 showers a year and this one has up to 60 hits an hour, one every minute looks about right on the scan thingy doodles to me. Not that I actually know what I am on about.

So I recall a thread talking about meteorites and earthquakes inbound for today .

It could mean nothing, or everything!

Hi OP do you mind to share your general coordinates in chich this happened. The direction of the sighting, time and oberved trayectory?
Thanks!

quote:

"During a meteor shower this trace will be full of strike traces, but it is also surprising how many meteors are striking Earth’s atmosphere all of the time."

last line on the page

We'll we have a different hemisphere but it was in the southern part if the night sky

Can someone please post the Meteor Scan link,

Thank You Muchly.

Er grenst ook wel een Vlaams gedeelte aan Maastricht hé !!!

A Jehovahs witness came to my house yesterday and said there will be a recent spike in EARTHQUAKES and all the evil will go away.
AND this earthquake JUST HAPPENED...WTF ?

Was maar een grapje, toch niet Maasmechelen (;

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Thank you very much Dutchy : )

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HUGE earthquake in massachusetts!!!!

The Orionid meteor shower came early?

I believe it was Maine, and only 4.5M.

a 4.6 ??

And it came HARD

Zeeland hier, een half kou geleden, nix gezien

Some should stop the fapping.



Last Edited by A r c on 10/16/2012 07:40 PM

Houston, we have another hit.
Over.

I haven't seen anything either last 40 minutes give or take.

Okay just did, one big one and a smaller one that followed.

same to you ;)