Meteor Shower Created by Halley’s Comet Peaks This Week

[struggle4progress]

by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer
Date: 16 October 2012 Time: 09:00 AM ET

A meteor shower spawned by history’s most famous comet will peak this weekend, and the show could be dazzling for observers with clear skies, experts say.

The Orionid meteor shower will reach its zenith overnight from Saturday to Sunday (Oct. 20-21) as Earth plows through debris shed by Halley’s Comet on its path around the sun. The most impressive display should come a few hours before dawn Sunday, when our planet hits the densest patch of Halley’s detritus.

"Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour," Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said in a statement ...

http://www.space.com/18078-orionid-meteor-shower-halleys-comet.html

[BlueJazz]

1. Scientists need to schedule these things in the evening hours so more people can enjoy them.

Pretty damn inconsiderate of them.

[siligut]

4. Why not just bring the whole thing to Disneyland

WTF putting it up there where no one can even see it.

[sakabatou]

2. Goddamn light pollution

[BlueJazz]

3. Here in the Tampa Bay area, I can just make out a 3rd mag object. Pisses me off to no end.

Even my moronic neighbors down the street have their outdoor lights pointed up in the air.

A BB or pellet rifle ??....I've thought about it many times...