May 31st Could Be the Most Powerful Meteor Storm in Generations, or Nothing at All
- May 31st Could Be the Most Powerful Meteor Storm in Generations, or Nothing at All
by https://www.universetoday.com/
Be sure to watch the skies on the last morning of May, for a possible Tau Herculid meteor outburst.
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If predictions hold true, we may be in for a rare meteor outburst from an obscure meteor shower on May 31st topping a thousand meteors per hour… or we may see nothing at all. Welcome to the wonderful world of meteor shower predictions and prognostications.
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The story starts with the discovery of periodic Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 back in 1930 from the Hamburg Observatory. (We’ll be referring to it as simply ‘Comet 73P’ from here on out). Astronomers Arthur Wachmann and Carl Schwassmann caught this fuzzball comet on glass plate captures as a +9.5 magnitude object, moving through the constellation Hercules.
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