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The "spectacle" that the meteor shower is expected to provide next week

2022-11-04 17:16:10Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
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"Halloween fireballs," as NASA calls them, can still be seen blazing in the night sky for the next few weeks, thanks to the Southern Taurid meteor shower.

The shower's estimated peak isn't until Saturday, Nov. 5, according to EarthSky , and the Taurids are famous for producing the most numerous and brightest fireballs, meteors that can appear brighter than the planet Venus.

This year's shower is expected to include an increased number of fireballs, otherwise known as a Taurid Swarm. The southern Taurids typically show only about five meteors per hour circling its apex, the point where Earth is closest to the center of the stream.

But every seven years, Jupiter's gravity pulls the meteor stream and causes an increase in their number.

"At the normal rate for fireballs, one would have to sit outside for 20 hours to see one," said Robert Lunsford, fireball report coordinator for the American Meteor Society.

"With the Taurids, (that time) can be reduced quite a bit, maybe up to five hours. And if you're really lucky, you might just walk outside and within minutes see one. When they appear is completely unpredictable.”

The Taurids are the result of a breakup of a very large comet about 20,000 years ago. Among other debris, that breakup created Comet Encke, which has an orbit around the sun of just over three years, the shortest of any large comet in our solar system.

With each pass of the Earth in its short orbit, it leaves behind a trail of debris. This path includes the Southern Taurides, which are such a large group that it takes our planet several weeks to cross.

Fireballs from the Taurids are meteors larger than a meter and extremely bright, according to NASA. They move slowly because they hit the Earth's atmosphere at a perpendicular angle, so they can be seen moving across the sky for a few seconds, versus the millisecond visibility most meteors provide.

The best time to go out and see a fireball will be at 2 a.m. local time throughout next week, according to Lunsford.


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