What You Actually See During A Meteor Shower
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Whether it’s the Perseids meteor shower in August or the Orionids in October, meteor showers are one of those light shows we can always count on year after year. And that regularity has everything to do with what you’re actually seeing when you watch a meteor shower.
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Following is the transcript of the video:
Solar eclipses are rare and you can never predict when an aurora will illuminate the sky. But there's one cosmic light show we can always count on. Meteor showers. They happen around the same time each year and have been doing so for centuries. But despite their brilliance and beauty it doesn't take much to make a meteor shower. You just need three ingredients, the sun, Earth and a comet.
Comets have been around since the dawn of our solar system over four-and-a-half billion years ago. They formed out of the same disc of gas and dust that created earth and the other seven planets. And like the other planets they too orbit the sun but that's where the similarities end. Most planets orbit the sun on fairly circular orbits whereas comets take a more elliptical path through our solar system. Check out Halley's Comet for example. Right now it's beyond the orbit of the furthest planet Neptune. But over the next 50 years it will travel about three billion miles toward the inner reaches of our solar system. Eventually flying past Earth in the year 2061.
And it's encounters like this that make meteor showers possible. Because as a comet approaches the inner solar system, the sun's radiation heats up ice under the surface and as that ice turns to a vapor it generates powerful outbursts of gas and dust, sometimes ejecting hundreds of tons of material into space per second. The result is a brilliant stream of debris called the comet tail or coma, which can stretch hundreds to thousands of miles across. In fact, space is littered with comet tail debris that our planet passes through each year. And when that happens, the debris strikes our atmosphere at over 100,000 miles an hour, incinerating the four-and-a-half billion year old fragments in seconds. This produces brilliant flashes of light that we call a meteor shower.
Now some meteor showers are more spectacular than others, giving us anywhere from a few to over a hundred meteors an hour. And even the same meteor shower can vary from year to year. It all depends on how much debris we scoop up as we pass through the tail. Regardless, comet tails tend to follow the same path as the comet itself, which means they pass through the same spot along Earth's orbit. That's why we get the same meteor showers around the same time each year. At the end of October for example, we pass through the tale of Halley's Comet which gives us the Orionids meteor shower. And every August, we pass through comet Swift-Tuttle's tail which we see as the Perseids meteor shower. But it's not just October and August, meteor showers occur year-round. So check your calendar to see when the next one will be coming to a sky near you. - Наука та технологія
I've never seen a meteor shower. I could have but damn clouds got in the way.
Lol
summer time is best time also 2 summer showers are really easy to see
🎶Tonite's gonna be a good nite..
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It will happened tomorrow on us philippines
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During meteorite shower we see
*Meteorites*
Jay V. Z
Thank you xD
Jay V. Reaaallyyyy!!?????
Meteors, not meteorites :D
Get this man an award
Thank you for not stretching your videos 10-15 min long. You guys are heroes
All I see is people having fun in the meteor shower, since they want to clean themselves
Just saw my very first meteor shower tonight with my neighbors we all sat outside and it was lovely. one ended up shooting right over our heads. Wish I could have captured it all but sadly my phone could not. even so, we sat out there all night tonight enjoy one another company talking and looking up to the night sky. ✨☄️✨
Simple answer space is very vast. There you go😊
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Recently a METEOR PASSED ABOVE MY HOUSE ROOF...LOL...🌠🌠🌠🌠
My dream is life in the beautiful night sky ⭐
They are common because we already know nothing happens
This was really helpful!
Thank you.
this video never did say what I will "actually see during a meteor shower". However, having watched many such showers, I can tell you. You may see one meteor, in an hour of watching.
february11, 1986 coptic calander 2300hr i have seen a meteor shower or many meteors at one time streaking the sky for longer than normal time ( 10 to 25 seconds ) closer to ground or earth closer than normal , frighting indeed , no sound no vibration just lights and flights
I just saw one. I am so excited.
yesterday I saw it and it showered 10 meteors, one was pretty large and it was near my home idk but it was big I could see the orange, but the others were really high and white, but first meteor kind of looked like some blue fire meteor.
today is the meteor shower here in the philippines..
were curious that it still doesnt show up
Gaming with Erika i saw something but it was just 15 meteors per hour so i got patient
here because in a few moments i will be seeing meteor showers from meteor halley.
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It's beautiful, informative and valuable video on meteor shower during this time of year. Thank you 👌
Cool and intrsting
Earth have the best defense system
I might of seen a mention a few minutes ago, I’m not sure...
Just had the perseids shower
It does 4 damage that's why it's a common
Comets are ice, meteors are rocks. They are not interchangeable.
Oh look it's a meteor!
Kimi no na wa?
Ah shit here we go again
When they said “the furthest planet, Neptune” that hurt. Poor Pluto
Pluto is no longer debated as to whether it's a planet or not, but still they call it a dwarf "planet."
they also said 7 planets ?
What about meteor baths people , like why can’t we have a asteroid bubble bath once in a while
Meteor showers happen when God does a ice bucket challenge
Why dont shooting stars or meteors ever come up from the horizon? Show me a meteor shower that shoot from the horizon upward....after all if the earth is a ball, space is in all directions, but yet shooting stars only streak across the sky
Any one sees this today there was one today
Stranger Thingsss I was outside and I saw a really bright one! It was amazing
Tripping balls.
u see an opportunity to make a wish
Lovely
Time check 10:30 orionid meteor shower is now
do i never seen this like this that earth is going faster den i thought so it is now.
Lol after I watch this I was like
*mom when will the meteor shower happens? How big is it? Can u see it from closer? Is it bigger than an elephant?* lol not rlly i dont ask that..I mean I do say I ask my mom but not me..mY mINd oKaY-
I see nothing
Nice
What happens if a plane hits a meteor shower tho?
you see burning rocks passing by
I have never ever saw a meteor shower in my life I think no one have saw a meteor shower
Here, the sky is mostly cloudy. So I never get to watch meteor shower even the Geminids!!
To the person reading the comment in the year 2061.
I just wanted to let you know that I was here in 2020!
What's an orbit?
I have seen but done know what was that... But similar to meteor. 2 meteor back to back
There is a solar eclipse in iceland now
I have NEVER seen a meteor shower nor an eclipse ONCE
same
Hmmm...A star has moved from its initial position and when it was close to the land just...dissappeared.Strange,huh?
Shadow maybe it’s out of earths view?
I’ll be damned, “Meteor showers” are just those damned Gods taking a shit.
Wow they made meteor showers from cavetown into a real thing
I wish I can see it 😞😔
Wish on a shooting star
I saw one today
12th August is the date.
Mark your calendar
Our news said in Oct. 21 we will have a meteor shower... FLIP NO
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would love to see a real mini-meteor soon come to the earth ground
*idk*
at 0:10 no origin point ??? misleading!
why have there never been any satalites nocked out the sky bye meteorites ???
I knew that oredy
Germinid meteor showers...
Golden?
I have a question is it a star or the meteor shower look like a Phoenix?
I just saw it and my brother said i dont that photo even tho he got 2 photos of da moon
How can we see Hailey meteor shower?
i did a coment now i c da meteor shower
Maybe autobots arrive!
Both macro and micro universes are one in the same
Let’s talk about space experiments. Can we attach something to the satellite that can House water bears. Then we can check up on them.
Can we go back to the moon and pollinate it with a billion microorganisms? Then 10 years later check on them?
okay, ive heard people saying the earth is 4.1b years ild, 8.9b, 71billion. i think the earth is only 2019 years old lool
Human history is 2019 A.D., not BC. Before B.C. is creation, which could have been centuries and is undated.
This is how dusty divot was made
So that's what a coma is
I wanna study astronomy so bad but I suck at physics
Then study physics more, simple really. You don't just get "good" at something.
So Hailey's comet can be clear out by Neptune but we are still passing through her tail?? It's that long??
comet tails are incredibly long yea
the remains ...
Hmm
ok
Before 100
IM ON THE SUN
Rdam Zuid 5314 are you kidding
Umar Shaikh no im dead serious
Umar Shaikh the real question is are YOU kidding?
Me to but I don't see u
Uuhhhh.....really?😮😮
Are u serious?
No one can go to sun.....
Or....maybe ur dead now..??
The sun's heat can kill ya!
Sorry im not good at english speaking...
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На Солнцу. тоже. Поподает может. за ето много вспышки
Ети. Астроеты.
Make wish 💫
4 1/2 Billion. Funny I herd only 10-15.000 yes old.
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2061 could be the end
Why u say that
@@vercitylle5215 bcause it's 2060+1. I mean halley could struck earth
But haley cant hit earth bc the molecular structure of the earth is formed in such a way that even if haleys comet was to hit then the gravitational pulls of earth would slow down the impact thus almost stopping the comet
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Check out billny skywatcher on UA-cam, he live streams the sky almost every night it's clear!
will we die ?
Oooh my bois
I wanna be in a coma
Im scared of metero showers becouse what if they crach the earth!!!!!!!!!😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱i rather hide Under my bed!!!!
They burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
En français c'est mieux ...
Uhh I see light, photons, no photons arent too small to be seen with the eye
what
Do meteor showers happen anywhere?
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