There are tiny dust-sized particles in Earth's path around the Sun. These particles are usually leftovers from asteroids or comets.
When Earth passes through these particles, they burn up in our atmosphere producing bright lines. This is called a meteor shower.
. . .a group of meteors that have an orbit that intersects the orbit of Earth, resulting in a large number of meteors entering the atmosphere in a relatively short span of time. Said another way. . .
Meteor showers typically come about due to temporarily high concentrations of sun-orbiting debris that crosses the orbital path of Earth and, hence, collide with her atmosphere.
While there are no "comet groups", comets being invariably solitary, debris cast off from a comet during its close approach to the sun can participate as "meteoric" space junk that encounters Earth during a meteor shower. Meteor showers tend to arise from old comets that have broken up and spread out along the comet's orbit. A meteor shower happens when the Earth's orbit intersects one of these old comets' orbits. That is why the same shower happens around the same date each year, and the meteors in that shower all appear from the same 'radiant point'.
No one has died as result of a meteor shower.
The Quadrantids are a meteor shower that occurs each year in early January. They are known for being one of the most intense meteor showers, with a very short peak lasting only a few hours. The meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Boötes.
the next one this year is around nov15-18
The radiant of a meteor stream is the point in the sky from which meteors appear to originate during a meteor shower. It is typically defined by the coordinates of a specific constellation and is determined by the orbit of the parent comet or asteroid. Observers can identify the radiant by tracing the paths of meteors backward; they will converge at this point. The position of the radiant varies with different meteor showers throughout the year.
A Leonid storm is a meteor shower that occurs when Earth passes through a stream of debris left behind by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. This results in a higher-than-normal number of meteors visible to observers. The Leonid meteor shower usually peaks in mid-November.
The Perseid Meteor Shower occurs in mid-August each year.
From late July to late August, but best seen on the nights around the 12th of August each year.
No one has died as result of a meteor shower.
The Quadrantids are a meteor shower that occurs each year in early January. They are known for being one of the most intense meteor showers, with a very short peak lasting only a few hours. The meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Boötes.
Because certain meteor showers repeat year after year, on the same dates.
The Perseid Meteor Shower occurs in August. The Leonid Meteor Shower occurs in November.
The Perseid meteor shower occurs between August 10 and August 13 every year.
The Eta Aquariids meteor shows is around May 3 this year.
A band of Osage Indians took the Tai-me one year before the remarkable meteor shower.
One year before the meteor shower witnessed by the Kiowas and others in 1833, the Leonid meteor storm occurred in 1832. It was a significant meteor event, but not as remarkable or widely observed as the 1833 shower.
ive heard that it will be on December 21st 2010
the next one this year is around nov15-18