At 2:30 am the Aurigid will be at it’s peak. Look to the east and northeast. National Geographic News is predicting 200 meteors per hour!
Image courtesy NASA/JPL
…unlike most of these light shows, which are caused by the trails of comets that loop around the sun in a couple hundred years, the Aurigids are castoffs from a so-called long-period comet that orbits the sun once every 2,000 years.
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