Astronomers in North America are hoping to witness a meteor shower from Monday night to Tuesday morning.
Astronomers hope the Earth will pass through some of the debris ejected from the 1995 fragmentation of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, also known as SW3, from 11:45 p.m. to 12:17 a.m., according to the American Meteor Society.
Astronomers can’t be certain what they will see, according to NASA.
Robert Lunsford, of the AMS and the International Meteor Society, suggested skywatchers choose the darkest location possible and start looking for meteors at about 10:45 p.m. just in case the predictions are off.
“They are actually more likely to appear at lower elevations in the sky,” Lunsford wrote.
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Astronomers hope the Earth will pass through some of the debris ejected from the 1995 fragmentation of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, also known as SW3, from 11:45 p.m. to 12:17 a.m., according to the American Meteor Society.
Astronomers can’t be certain what they will see, according to NASA.
Robert Lunsford, of the AMS and the International Meteor Society, suggested skywatchers choose the darkest location possible and start looking for meteors at about 10:45 p.m. just in case the predictions are off.
“They are actually more likely to appear at lower elevations in the sky,” Lunsford wrote.
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