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Can You Say Camelopardalids? Observing, Weather Prospects and More for the May 24th Meteor Shower
Some recent springtime fireballs, including two early suspect Camelopardalid meteors (top). Note the lower right image also contains the passage of a blinking aircraft. Credit: The United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network. (@UKMeteorNetwork)
It could be the best of meteor showers, or it could be the…
Well, we’ll delve into the alternatives here in a bit. For now, we’ll call upon our ever present astronomical optimism and say that one of the best meteor showers of 2014 may potentially be on tap for this weekend.
This is a true wild card event. The meteor shower in question hails from a periodic comet 209P LINEAR discovered in 2004 and radiates from the obscure and tongue-twisting constellation of Camelopardalis.(…)
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