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Comet 209P/Linear US and Canada on Alert a New Meteor Superstorm Expected May 23-24 (Video)
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 14:18
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Comet 209P/Linear US and Canada on Alert a New Meteor Superstorm Expected May 23-24
May 20 2014
Comet 209P/LINEAR was discovered in February 2004 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project, a cooperative effort of NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, and the US Air Force. It is a relatively dim comet that dips inside the orbit of Earth once every five years as it loops around the sun.
Two years ago, meteor experts Esko Lyytinen of Finland and Peter Jenniskens at NASA Ames Research Center announced that Earth was due for an encounter with debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR. Streams of dust ejected by the comet mainly back in the 1800s would cross Earth’s orbit on May 24, 2014. The result, they said, could be a significant meteor outburst.
Are you prepared?
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