Published December 11, 2012, 02:33 PM
Areavoices: Yet another meteor shower coming Thursday?
NASA Science News just put out a press release about a possible new meteor shower that will light up the skies the same time as this week’s Geminids. It doesn’t have a name yet, but it does have a parent comet – 46P/Wirtanen.By: Bob King, Areavoices.com/Duluth News-Tribune, INFORUM
- Dust released by Comet Wirtanen, seen as the yellow-green colors
Dust released by Comet Wirtanen, seen as the yellow-green colors, is released along the comet’s orbit. Some of it may show up as meteors Thursday night. Credit: Max-Planck-Institut for Aeronomie, courtesy T. Credner, J. Jockers, T.Bonev . Click for more information.
NASA Science News just put out a press release about a possible new meteor shower that will light up the skies the same time as this week’s Geminids. It doesn’t have a name yet, but it does have a parent comet – 46P/Wirtanen.
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