METEOR ACTIVITY PICKS UP: The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) - TopicsExpress



          

METEOR ACTIVITY PICKS UP: The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) is scanning the skies over North America for signs of meteor activity. This all-sky map produced during the early hours of July 31st shows an active radiant in the constellation Aquarius. "SDA" is the three-letter code for the Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower, which occurs every year in late July when Earth passes through a stream of debris from comet 96P/Machholz. Observers are reporting more than a dozen meteors per hour from this radiant. They are best seen from the southern hemisphere during the dark hours between midnight and dawn. The complete radar map shows another more significant radiant coming to life. Click here and look for "PER." The annual Perseid meteor shower is just getting started as Earth enters the outskirts of a debris stream from big comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on August 12-13 with ~100 meteors per hour, an order of magnitude stronger than the Southern Delta Aquariids.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:26:48 +0000

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