Hi all.. a friend (Jemima Marriott) mentioned seeing a bright shooting star 2 nights ago..and it made me realise that I’d not made any notes about meteors..not only for this coming year but all last year (2016). So a quick search on some reliable astronomy site has produced the following data.
Major Meteor Showers in 2017
Shower / Radiant & direction / Morning of maximum/ Best hourly rate / Parent
-Quadrantid / Draco (NE) / Jan. 3 / 60-100 / 2003 EH1
-LyridLyra (E) / April 22 / 10-20 / Thatcher (1861 I)
-Eta Aquariid* / Aquarius (E) / May 6/ 20-60 / 1P/Halley
-Delta Aquariid / Aquarius (S) / July 30 / 20 / 96P/Machholz
-Perseid* / Perseus (NE) / Aug. 12 / 90 / 109P/Swift-Tuttle
-Orionid / Orion (SE) / Oct. 21 / 10-20 / 1P/Halley
-Southern Taurid* / Taurus (S) / Nov. 5 / 10-20/ 2P/Encke
-Leonid / Leo (E) / Nov. 17 / 10-20 / 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
-Geminid / Gemini (S) / Dec. 14 / 100-120 / 3200 Phaethon
Data taken from http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/meteor-showers-in-2017/
I’ll write more in these soon…But this should be enough for all to atlast to male a diary note..and more importantly.. look up at the heaves for these messengers 🙂
-Mani Navasothy
ps. Here’s when i stayed up and actually caught one on camera..few years ago. ..back in 2013.
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