Surprise meteor shower! 'Finlay-id' 'shooting stars' will appear for the first time in 2021.

[smp]

From Space.com:
"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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[Unitron48]

Interesting! I really enjoy checking out meteor showers. Too bad it's so far south.

Dave

[Makuser]

Hi Stephen. Although this may be only a one time event, and visible from the far southern hemisphere, it is still amazing the things to be discovered in our skies. Thanks for posting this Stephen, and keep up the great astronomy and space news reports.