Surprise meteor shower! 'Finlay-id' 'shooting stars' will appear for the first time in 2021.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 3:25 pm
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!
smp
"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!
smp