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Debris from Halley's Comet to Light Up Night Sky In Coming Days - Weatherboy

Debris from Halley's Comet to Light Up Night Sky In Coming Days - Weatherboy

Debris from Halley's Comet to Light Up Night Sky In Coming Days - Weatherboy
May 01, 2021 44 secs

Traveling at about 148,000 mph  into the Earth’s atmosphere, fast meteors can leave glowing “trains” which last for several seconds to minutes.  These trains are really incandescent bits of debris in the wake of the meteor.

The pieces of space debris that interact with the Earth’s atmosphere to create the Eta Aquarids originate from Halley’s Comet.  NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that each time that Halley returns to the inner solar system, its nucleus sheds a layer of ice and rock into space.

The best viewing of the most meteors should be before dawn on Wednesday, May 5; however, the meteor shower should begin on May 4 and linger through to May 6.

A meteor is a space rock—or meteoroid—that enters Earth’s atmosphere.

While the meteor shower will be interesting to meteorologists and non-meteorologists alike, meteors actually have nothing to do with the weather.

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