Who knows why you can see more meteors in the later part of the night?

Answer 1

Because the earth orbits the sun in the same direction as its daily spin, we are on the "trailing" side of the globe before midnight. This means that meteoroids must "catch up" to us in order to burn up in our atmosphere, and will be slower (and so fainter) when they do. After midnight of course, the situation is reversed... The result is that you usually see many more meteors near dawn than near dusk!

Answer 2

Imagine a large ball rolling through the rain. The rain is falling downward onto the surface of the ball. The leading edge of the ball is moving forward into the the rain and is blocking or sweeping ahead of the trailing side . The trailing side is moving away from the rain.

Now, imagine instead of a ball in the rain, that the ball is the earth and the 'down' side of the ball is facing the sun and the rain is moving toward the sun.

Right after sunset, you are on the trailing side of the earth as it sweeps around the sun. After local midnight, you are on the leading edge of the ball and you run into more rain.

Answer 3

it's all basically that meteors are overshadowed by more light. for example, why can't you see stars at noon? because the sun has greater magintude than the rest of the stars because it is 10,000,000 times closer and therefore overshadows the other night objects.

Answer 4

The answers given are virtually correct, we are not facing the deep space wonders until after midnight. (you guys are good)

Answer 5

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