Happy Meteor Watch Day!

Today was National Meteor Watch Day for 2024! It is the day to celebrate the lovely sight of a “shooting star”, or meteor. . .

Happy National Meteor Watch Day ! ! ! 

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A Brief History:
What is a Meteor: Meteors are commonly referred to as “shooting stars” but are in fact not stars at all. Upon entering the Earth’s atmosphere, space debris like rock fragments generate intense heat due to friction with the surrounding air. This phenomenon creates a meteor as it streaks through the sky enveloped in blazing hot air. Most of the meteoroids responsible for creating meteors are no larger than a pebble in size. If a meteor makes it to the ground, it becomes a meteorite.

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What’s the Difference Between a Meteoroid, Meteor, or Meteorite? Here is the unique different between the three states of a meteor:

• Meteoroids are rocks that remain in space, varying in size from dust grains to small asteroids.
• Meteors occur when meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere at high speed and burn up, creating fireballs or “shooting stars.” A meteor, despite the shorter name, is in an atmosphere, falling in the sky–before it hits ground.
• Meteorites are formed when a meteoroid successfully makes it through the atmosphere and lands on the ground. Fortunately, that vast majority of meteorites are very small in diameter, as large ones can be devastating.

What is a Meteor Shower? On most nights, numerous meteors can typically be observed, with occasional significant increases in numbers known as meteor showers. It is approximated by scientists that around 48.5 tons of meteoritic material descends upon Earth daily. The majority of this material is incinerated in the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in a luminous streak commonly referred to as “shooting stars.”

Meteorite is Complicated: A meteorite could be a meteoroid, a particle of comet that makes it to strike ground, or any other type of debris that makes a strike to a ground. Whereas meteoroids are defined within the specific type of parameter. Here is NASA’s description:

A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon. —Courtesy NASA

Celebrated: The celebration is observed every June 30^th every year!

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A Few Facts:
I am sharing a few facts, and more, some trivia, some not trivial. . .

Numerous Meteor Showers Are Expected to Occur in 2024:

• January 4: Quadrantids:
• April 22–23: Lyrids (peak on April 16–25)
• May 4–5: Eta Aquarids
• July 29–30: Delta Aquariids (best viewed from southern tropics)
• July 17–August 24: Perseids (peak on August 12–13)
• October 6–10: Draconids (peak on October 7)
• October 2–7: Orionids (peak on October 21–22)
• November 4–5: South Taurids
• November 6–30: Leonids (peak on November 17–18)
• December 7–17: Geminids (peak on December 13–14)

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The Present:
The Earth is inundated with series of materos, and meteor showers. They can be beautiful and sometimes the potential to be dangerous.

The Future:
To the future of the Earth bein hit at anytime remains relatively low, but there is no way to predict or tell when and if one could make it through. . .

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National Meteor Watch Day