Meteor showers aren't like a bus or airliner; they don't arrive on a schedule. The Gemenid meteor shower started a couple of days ago, and will continue for two or three more days, but the pre-dawn hours of December 14 (your local time) are probably your best opportunity.
the next one this year is around nov15-18
Meteor Shower - TV series - was created on 2009-08-08.
The Quadrantid meteor shower normally occurs between January 2 and January 4. You can get advance notice of upcoming meteor showers at spaceweather.com.
Eclipses are visible, generally, only in certain locations. Meteor showers, however, affect the entire planet, and are generally a day or two long. The Perseid meteor shower is happening now, and will continue for a day or two more.
At current time (4/24/2015), the next peak metor shower will be on May 6, 2015.
Tonight (12th aug) from persius (just to the left of Casiopias "W". which is to the North east)
Yes. Meteor showers occur several times a year; they're not a local phenomenon, they occur everywhere on Earth. Some of the major ones and their approximate dates: *Early January: Quadrantids (Jan 3 in 2009) *Mid-April: Lyrids (April 21/22 in 2009) *Early May: Eta Aquarids (May 5 in 2009) *Mid-August: Perseids (August 12 in 2009) *Late October: Orionids (October 21 in 2009) *Mid-November: Leonids (November 17/18 in 2009) *Mid-December: Geminids (December 13/14 in 2009)
All meteor showers are best observed between midnight and dawn, local time. The Leonid shower occurs annually around November 16-17, but you can usually see some meteors a couple of days earlier or later.Precise calculation of the exact time of a meteor shower is not yet possible, but with each year's additional experience, our estimates become more and more accurate.
The peak is on the 12th of August, but you will see them on the nights for at least a week before and after that, but not as many as on the peak night.
Perseids, associated with debris from comet Swift-Tuttle, peaking sometime on August 12 but likely visible a night before and a night after.
Small meteors hit the Earth every minute of each day. Larger meteors, big enough to be visible, hit the Earth several times each hour. In a "meteor shower", you may see over a hundred meteors an hour. Big meteors, big enough to hit the Earth, happen a few times every day. There are dozens of meteorite museums all over the country. Really big meteors, enough to cause a lot of damage, are fairly rare, fortunately. The last REALLY big meteor landed in Siberia, 100 years ago; it caused as much damage as an atomic bomb! Fortunately, very few people lived in Siberia back then.
It will occur on December 31, 2009.