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Dahboo77 Video: Eyes to the Skies! The Mystical Draconid Meteor Shower Peaks This Week
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 9:28
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Stargazers all over the Northern Hemisphere are in luck this week as October 7th marks the peak of the Draconid meteor shower, an event that occurs when comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner collides with Earth’s orbit.
The collision occurs in the constellation Draco the Dragon, so it looks like hundreds of meteors are shooting out of the mouth of a dragon. This is also where the name Draconids comes from. Sounds incredible, right? YouTuber Jeremy Evans captured a Draconid meteor shower back in 2015:
While EarthSky has said that likelihood of a repeat of the 2011 shower is highly unlikely, part of the fun is not being able to anticipate the shower.
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