When will the next meteor shower occur?

Question

In Hendersonville/Asheville area NC.

Answer 1

Is tonight soon enough for you? The Orionid meteor shower is occuring right now. In fact, it should be at or near it's peak tonight (today being Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006).

Best time to see the meteors will be between 1am or so and sunrise, although there will be visible meteors early in the evening as well. The meteors will generally appear to radiate from the direction of the constellation Orion, which, for you in Asheville, will rise in the Northeast around 9pm tonight. The higher Orion gets in the sky, the more meteors should be visible.

By the way, the Orionids are remants of Halley's Comet.

Answer 2

The next major meteor shower will be the leonid shower Saturday November 18, 2006. Meteor showers occur when the Earth passes thru the remains of the dust tail of a comet which has passed thru the Earth's orbital path earlier. In this particular case the comet is comet Temple-Tuttle named for the two people who discovered it. Since the particles contributing to the shower come from a comets tail debree the meterors will all appear to come from the same locale. The shower will be close to the Earth, but when looking at it, the mereorites will appear to come from a background constellation. The shower is named for the constellation from which the meteorites appear to be coming from. In this case it will be Leo the lion. Hence the name is the leonids. Leo will be comming up to the east of Orion. The best time to see the shower will be after two AM, althoug some should be visible after midnight. The new moon is on the 19th so it should be nice and dark and hopefully clear.

Answer 3

Go to space.com, and try to find information about the Orionid shower, to occur about any time (it's spread out over several days). The Leonids will occur around the 15th of November, but check space.com about that, too. The Quadrantids (named after a constellation no longer accepted) occur the latter part of the year and are the best yearly shower; they are less well known than the Perseids (early August) because it is cold in December in North America. Don't be fooled by the necessity for finding the particular point in the sky the meteors appear to radiate from: the meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, but if you extrapolate backwards they appear to radiate from the constellation for which the shower is named. If you see one going in a different direction than the shower meteors it is called a "sporadic", and sporadic meteors can be seen every night (if it is clear and there isn't too much light).

Answer 4

the Orionids are occurring tonite in the wee hours of morning radiating from Orion the hunter.
the Leonids peak on November 18th at 11:45 est radiating out of Leo the lion
should see between 28 and 130 meteors per hour

check out skytonite.com

Answer 5

A saw a couple real nice meteor last night, the first a fireball, so I got to looking online this evening and found this site. It has a nice calender of when to expect the best showers. (For all of us since it happens all over, never just specifically for one state.)

http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/calendar.html

Answer 6

it should happen pretty soon. i read a book and it said that there was one in october the 16th, but they can be off a little. so every night i would be outside watching!

Answer 7

I read somewhere that about 25000 meteorites strike the earth's atmosphere every day. How about that?

Answer 8

Ya..Right the answer above me... gots it.. Just heard on the news...... . Tonight.

Answer 9

have no ideas !but i am far from there .thank goodness
if it is big enough ? we will not have to worry about it ........