Taurid meteors to dazzle this November

The Taurids meteor shower is active throughout November with a double radiant and a double peak. Observers can usually expect around 10 meteors per hour from dark sky locations, but moonlight could wash out many in the first third of the month.

The tiny fragments burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, debris from the periodic comet 2P/Encke, will reach peaks of activity on the 5th (Southern radiant) and 12th/13th November (Northern radiant).

Most meteors fall after midnight, for the same reason that more insects are found on the windscreen than the boot of a car; the Earth catches up to comet dust trails as it sweeps out its orbit, the line of the Eastern dawn leading the way.

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