Earth to pass through Comet Halley's remains on Sunday

Post by **Airconvent** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:38 pm

shooting stars anyone?
Looks like ykchia would be working overtime on Sunday....

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/071019-ns-orionids.html

ChaosKnight · Post by **ChaosKnight** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:24 am

How will you know if the shooting stars are from Halley's Comet? It could be this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqf-pqZhWKE

Post by **Airconvent** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:32 pm

hahaha

But seriously, Nasa tracks the dust trail of many comets which is why they are able to predict many of the meteor showers. Their inference has to take into account the dynamic gravitational influence of the sun, planets and asteroids to establish where each stream is at any time. Hence tomorrow, Earht is expected to pass through the predicted position of Halley's dust trail...whether it results in a nice meteor shower we will have to see tomorrow...

boothee · Post by **boothee** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:42 pm

Thanks for your info.
I saw a big bright one and 2 small one within an hour last night.

Cheers!
boothee

Post by **acc** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:50 pm

Heh Boothee good hearing from you. Hope the situation in your country will improve in the near future..