Stargazers Set for Spectacular OUTBURST Draconid Meteor Shower

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- Stargazers Set for Spectacular OUTBURST Draconid Meteor Shower
by https://www.rt.com/ 5 Oct 2019
The Draconid meteor shower is set to peak in the coming days and Earth’s path through space means stargazers are about to witness some spectacular pyrotechnics. Here’s everything you need to know about the stunning phenomenon.
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The dazzling light show will set skies ablaze from Sunday until Thursday, peaking on Tuesday when hundreds of meteors are set to rain from the sky.
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The shower occurs when the Earth flies through the debris field that’s left in the wake of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. The meteors appear to emerge from a point near the head of the constellation Draco the Dragon.
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The Draconids are sometimes a tame affair, however it’s an outburst year, meaning they could produce 40 to 50 meteors an hour. The outbursts occur when the Earth passes inside the comet’s orbit shortly after it has gone by.
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Stargazers will be hoping for a natural fireworks show similar to 2011 when the shower rained down up to 600 meteors per hour. Amazingly, people in Europe were treated to an incredible 500 Draconids a minute in 1933, and their counterparts on the west coast of the US saw thousands per hour in 1946.
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