when and where was the first meteor shower?

Question

if you know any of the following, then please include.
-when the next major meteor shower can be seen in toronto/newmarket, ontario.
-where to see each major meteor shower in 2007.
-a little info on each major meteor shwer.
-anything you know about meteor showers.
-a good website that includes anything above
thanks

Answer 1

There have been meteor showers for as long as the Earth has existed, long before there were any humans to witness them. Most of the predicted meteor showers are very minor increases in the hourly rate of meteors that only dedicated meteor observers would be interested in. The two main meteor showers visible in the northern hemisphere (including Newmarket...I've actually seen a meteor in Sharon, just north of you!) are the Perseids, active for a week or so around August 12 every year, and the Geminids, visible on December 14 every year. You can see meteors any clear night from a dark sky (get out of Newmarket!), just a few more of them on shower nights. You'll always see more after midnight, because the radiant (the point in the sky they seem to be coming from) will be high in the sky. That's the constellation Perseus for the Perseids and the constellation Gemini for the Geminids. I live near Coldwater, just north or Orillia, by the way, but I hold star parties and give talks at Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Sharon.

Answer 2

meteor showers theoretically happen on any planet with sufficent atmosphere to burn up incoming cosmic material. Saturns moon, Titan, has an atmosphere and possibly enjoys meteor showers.
as for the first meteor shower on earth, this probably happened some short time after the begenning of earths atmospheres formation, meteor showers were probably more common during the earliest days of our Earth due to the amount of loose material in the early solar system. Meteorites still would have rained down on earth before the atmosphere had developed, we just would not see the bright trails in the sky that we typically use to define a 'meteor shower'

also no humans would be around to see these showers for a few billion more years

Answer 3

Goto http://www.spaceweather.com/
Somewhere there you can sign up for alerts.
I get emails whenever there are northern lights or meteor showers and stuff and they tell you who will be able to see it.
I only get 1 email a month or so from them so its well worth it.
I actually just got an email today saying starting the 16th the northern lights season should be kicking in.
But don't look for meteors in T.O. you need at least Aurora or like you said newmarket

Answer 4

Meteor showers have happened since before Earth formed billions of years ago.

For information of upcoming showers, see the source.

Answer 5

First meteor shower was in space in one gillion B.C.

Answer 6

I know God created them and he knows when the first one took place

Answer 7

Smallville!!!!

Answer 8

idk sorry i know a lot of people dont like to answer these questions i tried getting a hard question like that and teling people to answer it . doesnt work . just look on google.