Surprise meteor shower! 'Finlay-id' 'shooting stars' will appear for the first time in 2021.
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Surprise meteor shower! 'Finlay-id' 'shooting stars' will appear for the first time in 2021.
"A never-before-seen meteor shower will sprinkle tiny pieces of comet dust above Earth's southernmost regions for a brief time later this year.
The "Finlay-id" meteor shower, which will last for about 10 days this fall, will appear over southern latitudes with little landmass. "That makes it not only an interesting meteor shower but also a very difficult meteor shower to observe," Diego Janches, a research astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, told Space.com in an interview."
https://www.space.com/comet-finlay-new- ... hower-2021
Thanks for the heads-up, Marshall!
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