Meteor Shower to Peak This Weak-Fireballs Expected
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111104-meteor-shower-fireballs-comet-taurids-space-science/
Summary
The Taurid shooting stars are ready to show through November 5th to 6th in 2011. The Taurids, annual meteor showers associated with comet Encke which is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every three years, consist of a plenty of fragments and when they enter Earth's atmosphere, they become fireballs and brighter than any other stars.
The most unusual feature of the Taurid meteor showers are that they appear to be divided into the two different clouds and show themselves from each cloud constantly during a week.
The Taurid meteors stimulate many scientists because they believe that the meteors were made by a broken large comet which occurred thousands years ago. An astronomer mentions the comet which was more than 62 miles wide was broken and became clusters 20,000 years ago after multiple trip around the sun. Coming the meteors becomes an incredible sample and helps many scientists investigate any fields of the space studies, he says.
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