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LINK Shattered comet could produce dazzling meteor shower: How to watch the tau Herculids | Live Science

I'm on a streak of weak meteor shower shows.
Here's hoping the tau Herculids next week will be better.🤔

Peak Tuesday May 31, between 12:45 p.m. and 01:17 a.m. EDT
(between 9:45 a.m. and 10:17 p.m. PDT)

From the link


The shower, which has been called the tau Herculids, is set to fall from the shattered SW3 comet beginning May 30 and peaking on May 31 between 12:45 p.m. and 01:17 a.m. EDT, lighting up skies across the U.S. and parts of Canada with some brief but bright streaks of flame.

NASA astronomer Bill Cooke described the comet’s possible upcoming appearance in a NASA statement as an "all or nothing event." The show would be the result of debris cast off from a fragment of the comet. While comet debris most often falls behind the comet fragment to form the tail, sometimes it can get expelled at such a high velocity that the bits of ice and rock are slingshotted ahead of the comet. For us to see this debris as it burns up in our atmosphere it has to be either big enough or fast enough to burn brightly as our planet treks through its path, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS).

RichCC 8 May 27
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