2015 Orionid Meteor Shower
This year’s Orionids will probably peak on the morning of October 21 or 22, 2015. You might ask why is the date not definite. That is part of the fun in watching meteors. They are unpredictable. Sometimes there can be quite a surprise should Earth’s path cross a particularly heavy patch of comet dust trail. The Orionid meteors are debris from Comet Halley’s travels into the Inner Solar System on its path around the Sun. Annually some of this debris is captured by Earth’s gravity and it falls through the Earth’s atmosphere burning brightly from the heat of friction with air molecules. [Read more…] about 2015 Orionid Meteor Shower