WTF is this "new" meteor shower tonight?

A new meteor shower? And why did I first hear about it in this morning's paper?

Turns out some comet trail got close to Jupiter and Jupiter tugged on all that space dust and pulled it into the way of the Earth. So tonight we are passing through a new cloud of space dust. It will be peaking in about 18 hours.

Because it's new, we don't know if it will be mind-blowingly awesome or just meh. But starting at about 10:30 tonight, local time, and peaking at around 2 AM, you should see a bunch of shooting stars if you look in the northern sky.

It's times like now that I am unhappy that I live inside the Beltway. I bet the view will be good in Wyoming. Won't be such an ungodly hour either.

Details.

That's it, damnit, I'm tired of those heathen Jupiterians messing with us. Send drones to kick their ass. USA USA USA! :tinfoil:

When I was a kid my mother made it a point to take us up on the garage roof to watch meteor showers :)

All the open fields around here have flood lamps shining on them to deter hooliganism or something.

I'd need to hop in the car and drive an hour west to have a good view.

I'll look up anyway. You never know what you might see.

I know what I'll see. The pillowy buttocks of a dwellar DanaC recently inquired about.

Near 100% cloud cover. Again. I'm not having a good record for celestial events.

wolf;899640 wrote:

Near 100% cloud cover. Again. I'm not having a good record for celestial events.

100 percent the same here, sadly.

Had some clear sky, but didn't see diddly.

I saw stars, but no meteors. Too bad. It would have been cool.

That's what the dinosaurs said... the night before the end. :haha:

In a clear sky, I saw between half a dozen and a dozen over a 45 minute time period while I was looking for 3 hours to cover the different peak viewing timeframe projections. They were coming in head on from the north appearing as points of light materializing for just a second without streaking. The various intensities were all less than the brightest star out. I've seen much better meteor showers. Those who missed it didn't miss enough to be worth staying up for IMHO.