Observers in North America will have the best view, but there’s no guarantee that the Tau Herculids will put on a light show.
The Tau Herculids meteor shower happens each year between May 19 and June 19, but virtually no one tends to notice. This meteor shower is produced by debris from Comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3, and it’s typically very quiet, but the situation is a bit different this year. To understand why, we have to go back 27 years.into dozens of pieces.
the fragments. This sets the stage for a possible outburst, but only if a sufficient amount of cometary debris reaches EarthComet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 was discovered in the 1930s and it orbits the Sun once every 5.4 years.NASA, ESA, H. Weaver , M. Mutchler and Z. Levay “If the fragments…were ejected with speeds greater than twice the normal speeds—fast enough to reach Earth—we might get a meteor shower,” according to a NASA
. Excitingly, observations made with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2009 “indicate that at least some fragments are moving fast enough,” and “this is one reason why astronomers are excited,” the space agency added.
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