Meteor Showers

 Meteor Showers: I saw a great meteor a couple of nights prior. It was in the northwest sky. A blazing light toward the edge of my eye made me turn, and afterward I could see a splendid meteor heading straight down. 

This was a Taurid meteor!

METEOR SHOWER

Two huge meteor showers happen in November. At that point obviously, the Geminids cap it off toward the beginning of December! The Taurid meteor shower is at top now, yet the pinnacle isn't significant with this shower, it essentially has a level pinnacle of around 10 days during the initial fourteen days of the month. There are just around five meteor for each hour, yet this shower produces fireballs consistently. I can ensure there will be some amazing reports of fireballs for another couple of weeks.

The subsequent meteor shower is the Leonids meteor shower. It tops the evening of Nov 16/17. This year will be a commonplace year for the Leonids which implies around 15 meteors for each hour.

METEOR SHOWER

Notwithstanding, this meteor shower has created the best realized meteor storms ever. Most as of late in 2001, it created a large number of meteors every hour, which I saw. There were a few meteors in the sky on the double the majority of the night! A much greater tempest happened in 1966 when rates bested 100,000 every hour with up to 40 happening for each second! There was a major tempest in the East Coast, so it couldn't be seen, however it was seen in the Western states. Here is an incredible writeup on that occasion:

Here is a little taste of how crazy the 1966 tempest was: (above connection) 

"Starting at around 5 a.m. Eastern Time, Leonid movement out of nowhere started to increase. Along the Eastern Seaboard, the sunrise sky was lighting up, and where clear skies won, watchers had the option to see Leonids falling at paces of up to six every moment before it at last turned out to be too brilliant to even consider seeing the stars. 

Farther west, where it still dull, Leonids were falling at a rate depicted by numerous individuals as "too various to even think about counting." One eyewitness positioned north of Mission, Texas, said that meteors falling every which way gave the impression of a "huge umbrella," appearing to "cascade" out of the head of Leo."