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New meteor shower
Topic Started: May 23 2014, 11:58:33 AM (564 Views)
rhombus
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The Friendly Parallelogram

A cosmic debris field from Comet 209P/LINEAR will intersect the Earth for the first time this year, resulting in a meteor shower that may be rather significant. The new shower, called the Camelopardalids, will be on full display from 2 am to 4 am Eastern Time on May 24 (7 am to 9 am GMT) where as many as 200 to 1000 meteors per hour could be visible.

A news report on this can be found here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/22/us/meteor-sh....html?hpt=hp_t2

NASA's press release on the topic can be found here: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/fea...ml#.U399wE5J2Uk

A viewing guide can be found here: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/fi...teor-Shower.pdf
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Kor
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Thanks for the links, though converting gmt to my time is gibberish.
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Justin1993
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Clouds are starting to move in. Looks like no meteor shower for me. :( Maybe I'll be able to catch some between the cloud cover, if the shower is as active as they are predicting.
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rhombus
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^ I am sorry to hear that, Justin. I was in a similar situation during the last full lunar eclipse. The clouds moved in immediately prior to the moon falling into the Earth's shadow. Hopefully you will be able to catch a few glimpses of the meteor shower between the cloud cover. :yes
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Kor
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Looks like total cloud cover here. At least I did see a meteor shower once, when I was teenager.
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Serris
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General of the Great Valley
It's raining where I am.
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Ducky123
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*insert creative caption here*

Was anybody lucky enough to catch a meteor on photo? They couldn't be seen here in Europe.
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The Chronicler
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Even though I was up late enough to see it, I didn't even bother to check outside. If I could hear rain outside, then chances were that it was too cloudy to see anything.
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Chiletrek
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Hello:
With me been that busy of even going saturdays to the high-school to help students and stuff, I was unable to try to see anything :( .

Maybe next year, hehehe.
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rhombus
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I was only able to see 3 meteors after about 30 minutes of watching. Apparently many others also found the meteor shower to be a disappointment.
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