[yup2394871293]

1986 was only 25 years ago? Wow, now I feel younger. Just hope we keep on getting easy-to-see comets and not easy-to-spot supernovas.

[yup2394871293]

NASA astronomer William Cooke explains that many of the meteors are likely to be "Earth Grazers," meaning they'll hit our atmosphere at a shallow angle. This could lead to very long, dazzling trails. Cooke instructs to see the meteors, look straight up if you're in the southern hemisphere and straight up and slightly to the east if you're in the northern hemisphere.

Perhaps that could help to explain some of the slower fireballs I've seen that weren't going due west - due east.

[Tomato lover]

“This year, the display peaks during the early hours of May 6”

Then, shouldn’t they have warned us last night. It is already the late hours of May 6th.

Is it possible they mean May 7th, between midnight and 4 am, or something like that?

I would like to see it.

[RushingWater]

This is evolution being proved true.

Comets are left over from all the hullabaloo of the big bang or something from billions of years ago and whirls through the universe decaying rapidly. Yeah, the decay rate is so rapid there shouldn’t be any left, but what’s a plot hole when evolution is in play?

[bunkerhill7]

Halley`s Berries?

[PA Engineer]

I've heard about this one before. No way I'm watching those funny green lights tonight.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Beowulf9.

Observing the Eta Aquarids
Meteor Showers Online by Gary W. Kronk

...Hajduk noted that the Eta Aquarids occur when Earth is 0.065 AU from the stream's core, while the Orionids occur when Earth is 0.15 AU away. According to the Springhill data, there is a smaller variation between the annual activity rates for the Eta Aquarids than exists for the Orionids. The evolution of this stream was discussed during 1983, by B. A. McIntosh (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Ottawa, Canada) and Hajduk. They published the details of a proposed model of the meteor stream produced by Halley's comet. Using a 1981 study published by D. K. Yeomans and Tao Kiang, which examined the orbit of Halley's comet back to 1404 BC, McIntosh and Hajduk theorized that "the meteoroids simply exist in orbits where the comet was many revolutions ago." Further perturbations have acted to mold the stream into a shell-like shape containing numerous debris belts. These belts are considered as the explanation as to why both the Orionids and Eta Aquarids experience activity variations from one year to the next.

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