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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« on: May 22, 2014, 1737 UTC »
Experts are predicting we may be in for quite a show: a brand spanking new meteor shower that will peak on the evening of Friday, May 23, 2014! Folks in the United States and Canada have the most favored viewing locations for this event (but that doesn’t mean you should forget about it if you’re elsewhere). Predicted rates for this new shower are quite high, about 100–400 meteors per hour, far higher than normal showers. And they’ll appear to be coming from an area of the sky near the north pole, so they should be visible raining down all over the sky!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/20/camelopardalids_a_new_meteor_shower_from_comet_209p_linear.html
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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2014, 2203 UTC »
Perhaps 6 meters will be in order  8)

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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2014, 2319 UTC »
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"And they’ll appear to be coming from an area of the sky near the north pole, so they should be visible raining down all over the sky!"

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North pole ???

Should have said the North Star, Polaris. Sounds like this mug knows a lot about astronomy, not.
« Last Edit: May 23, 2014, 1837 UTC by ByteBORG »
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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2014, 1620 UTC »
Possible new Meteor Shower - This Friday/Saturday!
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Posted by:  dduncan@colorado.edu valentinozippysophia
Date: Thu May 22, 2014 1:13 pm ((PDT))

Chance of a New Meteor Shower
 
Dr. Douglas Duncan
Director, Fiske Planetarium, Univ. of Colorado
 
 Just after midnight this Friday night, or early Saturday morning, Colorado [and throughought the US - just adjust your time zone!]  residents may get to witness a rare astronomical event – the birth of a new meteor shower.  Meteor showers occur when the earth passes through the orbit of a comet.  Comet orbits are usually strewn with bits of ice and rock, and when the earth hits them at a speed which is typically 30 miles per second, they burn up at high speed in earth’s atmosphere.  Most meteors, which some people call “shooting stars,” are actually only the size of a pea, or even smaller.
 
A number of meteor showers are well known, such as the “Perseid” meteors that are seen every Aug. 11, 12, and 13.  However, a brand new meteor shower is possible.  In 2004 an automated telescope run for NASA by MIT discovered a comet.  This Saturday, around 1:30 Mountain Time, the earth will pass through the orbit of this comet, whose name is LINEAR.  How many meteors will be seen is highly uncertain.  “It could be a few dozens, or it could be hundreds,” says Fiske Planetarium Director and CU astronomer Douglas Duncan.  Since even the chance of a new meteor shower is so rare, Duncan plans to camp out that night. “The sizes and distribution of particles along the comet’s path isn’t known, so it pays to watch from midnight onwards, not just at 1:30 am.”  If you trace back the streaks of the meteors, they are expected to radiate from a point above the northern horizon, to the right of the position of the Big Dipper at 1:30 am.  However, they are expected to streak all across the sky.

 “A dark sky is critical for seeing any meteor shower,” Duncan says.  “In the city you might see one or two, in the suburbs 5 or 6, but up in the mountains 50 in an hour.”
 
 CU’s Fiske Planetarium will have presentations on Thursday and Friday nights that will include discussion of the possible new meteor shower.  The Fiske planetarium lobby has a large, 4.6 million year old meteorite that you can touch.  For details visit http://fiske.colorado.edu http://fiske.colorado.edu or call 303-492-5002.

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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2014, 0038 UTC »
Bump.

Don't forget this once in a lifetime possibility for a possible meteor storm tonight after midnight local.
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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2014, 0101 UTC »
Whoa.  Meteor storm???
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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2014, 1237 UTC »
NOT A METEOR STORM: As predicted, during the early hours of May 24th Earth passed through a cloud of debris from from Comet 209P/LINEAR. The encounter produced some fine meteors. However, contrary to some forecasts, there was no intense outburst. Meteor rates in many places were no more than 5 or 10 per hour.

Although this is a far cry from predictions, it is hardly a surprise. The parent comet, 209P/LINEAR, is faint and currently produces only a small amount of dust. Most forecasters acknowldged that there might be less dust in Earth's path than the models suggested.

Another possibility is that the shower is not a dud, just delayed. If models mis-located the debris zone, an outburst could still occur later on May 24th.

Taken from spaceweather.com
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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2014, 1736 UTC »
Did anyone see anything? Got up at 3 AM went out and saw only one Meteor and a satellite. I had hoped for more.
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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2014, 1818 UTC »
No, apparently it was a bust. No reports of any above average meteor activity.
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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2014, 1930 UTC »
Yeah, same here. Nothing to be seen.

I was really hoping that something spectacular was going to happen.

Ah well, maybe next lifetime.  :'(
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Re: We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2014, 2235 UTC »
Saw one around 1:30 am PDT... "BFD"  Maybe could have seen more but forgot
to take off   8)

 

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