the next one this year is around nov15-18
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.
No one has died as result of a meteor shower.
meteor
No, not a meteor shower. The dinosaurs became extinct after a meteor struck the earth which blocked out the sun and killed much of the vegetataion that the dinosaurs used for food.
Meteor Shower - TV series - was created on 2009-08-08.
The Perseid Meteor Shower occurs in August. The Leonid Meteor Shower occurs in November.
The Leonid meteor shower, often just called the Leonids, occur in November of every year.
The Quadrantid meteor shower normally occurs between January 2 and January 4. You can get advance notice of upcoming meteor showers at spaceweather.com.
The first meteor shower of 2014 is expected to occur in May. The show that astronomers are calling a storm will occur as the Earth passes through debris left from comet 209P/linear.
Meteor showers occur when a meteor comes too close to the earth and gets drawn in by the earth's gravity. The light you see trailing behind the meteor (shooting star) is Ice melting off of it from the sun's heat.
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 Gemenid meteor shower has already started, and will probably last throughout the weekend. You will have the best viewing from after 10PM through about 4 AM each night.
The leonid vandeski (Leonids Meteor Shower) is a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle
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.
a meteor shower
When a meteor shower is in progress, it's visible from the entire night side of the earth. Search "meteor shower" on line for the dates of meteor showers expected in the near future.