Meteor shower over the next few nights

Buzz Lightbulb · Guru

Meteor shower over the next few nights

Mike Harding · Guru

Thanks for that:

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dorian · Guru

I wonder how this affects the space station.

Radar · Guru

We will look for the shower.

Thank you for the information.

Mobi Condo · Guru

Thank you for this.

Keen to view, 'specially now the cataracts have been done and I am supposed to have 20/20 distance vision.

Just for mischief, coz I am like that, I was getting all excited about getting a decent rifle so I could "shoot some stars" you know the loud screaming so called singers on T.V. now! confuse disbelief

Buzz Lightbulb · Guru

dorian wrote:
I wonder how this affects the space station.

I think that there is more chance of the ISS being hit by space junk for a few reasons:

There's more space junk,

Like the ISS, the space junk is in orbit around the earth and so they have more opportunities to hit the ISS whereas the meteors are, roughly, perpendicular to the ISS's orbit and

This meteor shower only happens once a year whereas space junk is always there and there's more each year.