Stargazers Look Up! Orionid Meteor Shower On Display This Month

MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Hey stargazers, look up.  The Orionid meteor ablution occurs each twelvemonth from astir October 2 to November 7.

Earth is passing done the watercourse of debris near down by Comet Halley which was present past successful 1986 and is expected to instrumentality successful 2061.

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While the meteor ablution is called the Orionids, it has thing to bash with the constellation Orion the Hunter. The ablution gets that sanction due to the fact that that is wherever the meteors volition look to radiate from. One of the much well-known constellations and easy recovered successful the wintertime nighttime sky, Orion tin beryllium seen present rising successful the southeastern entity each night.

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Look for the loop of 3 stars, to the near of that is the reddish supergiant prima Betelguese. That is adjacent the radiant constituent of the Orionid meteor shower. The champion clip to presumption these fast-moving meteors volition beryllium aft midnight to conscionable earlier dawn. Find a acheronian spot and springiness your eyes clip to adjust, support an oculus adjacent Orion but cognize that the meteors tin look astatine immoderate constituent successful the sky.

Orionid meteors are faint but fast, slamming into the Earth’s ambiance astatine 41 miles per second. Small particles near down by Comet Halley volition beryllium vaporizing astatine astir 60 miles supra the surface, creating a little way of airy you tin spot implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.

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This year’s Orionid meteor ablution is expected to highest the greeting of October 21, unluckily the agleam satellite whitethorn interfere with that this year.

Dave Warren