New meteor shower

rhombus · **on:** May 23, 2014, 12:58:33 PM

A cosmic debris field from Comet 209P/LINEAR will intersect the Earth for the first time this year, resulting in a meteor shower that may be rather significant. The new shower, called the Camelopardalids, will be on full display from 2 am to 4 am Eastern Time on May 24 (7 am to 9 am GMT) where as many as 200 to 1000 meteors per hour could be visible.

A news report on this can be found here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/22/us/meteor-sh....html?hpt=hp_t2

NASA's press release on the topic can be found here: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/fea...ml#.U399wE5J2Uk

A viewing guide can be found here: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/fi...teor-Shower.pdf

Kor · **Reply #1 on:** May 23, 2014, 03:09:36 PM

Thanks for the links, though converting gmt to my time is gibberish.

Justin1993 · **Reply #2 on:** May 23, 2014, 08:31:23 PM

Clouds are starting to move in. Looks like no meteor shower for me.

Maybe I'll be able to catch some between the cloud cover, if the shower is as active as they are predicting.

rhombus · **Reply #3 on:** May 23, 2014, 09:03:47 PM

^ I am sorry to hear that, Justin. I was in a similar situation during the last full lunar eclipse. The clouds moved in immediately prior to the moon falling into the Earth's shadow. Hopefully you will be able to catch a few glimpses of the meteor shower between the cloud cover.

Kor · **Reply #4 on:** May 23, 2014, 11:51:31 PM

Looks like total cloud cover here. At least I did see a meteor shower once, when I was teenager.

Serris · **Reply #5 on:** May 24, 2014, 12:43:13 AM

It's raining where I am.

Ducky123 · **Reply #6 on:** May 24, 2014, 11:26:36 AM

Was anybody lucky enough to catch a meteor on photo? They couldn't be seen here in Europe.

The Chronicler · **Reply #7 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:06:34 PM

Even though I was up late enough to see it, I didn't even bother to check outside. If I could hear rain outside, then chances were that it was too cloudy to see anything.

Chiletrek · **Reply #8 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:23:19 PM

Hello:
With me been that busy of even going saturdays to the high-school to help students and stuff, I was unable to try to see anything

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Maybe next year, hehehe.

rhombus · **Reply #9 on:** May 25, 2014, 02:06:52 AM

I was only able to see 3 meteors after about 30 minutes of watching. Apparently many others also found the meteor shower to be a disappointment.