Meteor showers this year

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Meteor showers this year

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Below is a table summarizing the major meteor showers this year for our easy reference. The yellow highlights are of what I think are the favourable parameters for observers in Singapore/Malaysia.

Done in MS-Word but it's a picture file below.

Data and text has been adapted from the website of the non-profit IMO at:
http://www.imo.net/calendar/2009
Please refer to it for further details.
(Moon days data from the website of the AMS)


As can be seen, the only one that's passed this year is the first one, the Quadrantids. Coming up soon are the Lyrids and the Eta Aquarids.

Happy viewing.

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