You know how when you look at the windshield of the car, there are bug splats on it? But there are never bug splats on the BACK window of the car. That's because the car is moving a lot faster than the bugs are, and the car runs into them.
It's sort of like that. The line of sunrise is the "front" end of the Earth, while the line of sunset is the back. As the Earth spins, the area that is seeing the dawn turns into morning, and then into noon, and then into evening, and finally sunset. Then that spot on the Earth turns around through the night until it's dawn, at the "front" end.
Space rocks are more likely to hit the "front" end of the Earth than the back end. In this case, the space rocks themselves sometimes are moving faster than the Earth does (the Earth is moving about 67,000 miles per hour in its orbit) and so sometimes you will see a meteor in the evening - but they are much more common in the pre-dawn hours in the front, than during the after-sunset hours in the back.
The Earth is moving around the Sun, at about 67,000 miles per hour. The "leading edge" of the Earth gets more meteor strikes than the "trailing side", because the Earth is going that way. Just like you often get bugs on your windshield but hardly ever get bugs on your rear window, because YOU hit the BUGS, rather than the bugs hitting YOU.
So the "front side" of the Earth gets more meteors than the back side. The part of the Earth going forward is the part between midnight and noon. Half of the front side is dark, while the other half is in sunlight. It's easier to see meteors in the dark than in the daytime.
So the dark part of the front side is the area between midnight and sunrise.
There are likely to be more of them falling into the atmosphere and burning up
after local midnight.
Before midnight, you're on the back side of the earth as it glides along its orbit,
so a meteorite has to catch up to earth in order to fall into the atmosphere.
After midnight, you're on the front side of the earth as it glides along its orbit,
so the earth is catching up to some slow-moving meteorites and grabbing them.
Because after midnight the observer is on the leading face of the earth as it goes through its orbit.
At dawn the part of the Earth you're standing on is in front ... of its motion in its orbit. Thus near dawn is when the sky above you sweeps up the most space debris.
meteors may be seen every night, preferably just before dawn, when their apparent velocity will be greater because of the rotation of the Earth. Thousands each night.
Meteors occur in earth's atmosphere, day and night. Only the large ones are visible in the day. The streak is largely the result of an after image, temporarily burned upon your retina. The light comes from the heat ablation of the meteor's surface from atmospheric friction. Most meteors are roughly the size of a grain of sand, and burn up before reaching the ground.
Meteors (two to three an hour on a typical clear night), comets on occasion, and if you have a good telescope, other galaxies and the occasional planetary nebula.
They usually don't fly at night.
At dawn the part of the Earth you're standing on is in front ... of its motion in its orbit. Thus near dawn is when the sky above you sweeps up the most space debris.
In the morning, we are on Earth's "front side", considering its movement around the Sun. Since Earth moves at a speed of about 30 km/second, the chance is greater of hitting a meteorite on the "front side".
meteors may be seen every night, preferably just before dawn, when their apparent velocity will be greater because of the rotation of the Earth. Thousands each night.
Yes. If you watch for a few hours, it is likely that you see one, or several.Yes. If you watch for a few hours, it is likely that you see one, or several.Yes. If you watch for a few hours, it is likely that you see one, or several.Yes. If you watch for a few hours, it is likely that you see one, or several.
Yes, meteors are true. You can see them. If you go out on any dark clear night you have to chance to see them, especially when there are meteor showers.
-- stars -- meteors -- airplanes.
Of course they can. Usually cheating guys claim to forget what happened the night before.
How often are meteors visible in Jamaica? Every night; there are thousands of meteors each day, and they are visible all around the world.
Meteors occur in earth's atmosphere, day and night. Only the large ones are visible in the day. The streak is largely the result of an after image, temporarily burned upon your retina. The light comes from the heat ablation of the meteor's surface from atmospheric friction. Most meteors are roughly the size of a grain of sand, and burn up before reaching the ground.
A CLEAR night. And for seeing meteors, the early morning pre-dawn hours are best.
They can appear in the middle of the night. Shooting stars can pass at anytime, they don't happen only at that time. You are actually more likely to see meteors in the pre-dawn hours of the morning, with 6 AM usually being the peak time.
No. The moon, planets and any aurorae, meteors, or comets that might be visible are not stars