Article suggestion for SOTT.net in Spanish - Regarding meteorites rain.

Yas

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Hello!

I'm suggesting this article about a meteorite rain that we will be able to watch here in Paraguay this Friday. As usual, there's not a lot of information about this. Only the time and date, as if it was a movie that we could watch in the cinema, and just some basic information about what a meteorite is.

So if anyone know something more about it, I will be glad to read it! :lol:

This is the link to the article: http://www.abc.com.py/nota/lluvia-de-meteoritos-se-podra-ver-este-viernes/

And I will paste it here as well:


Lluvia de meteoritos se podrá ver este viernes


Sin ningún tipo de instrumento óptico se podrá observar, este viernes, en nuestro país, una lluvia de meteoritos, ya que se dará el máximo “Eta Acuaridas”, nombre de la constelación de donde parece provenir.

Se espera entre 40 a 60 meteoritos por hora (estrellas fugaces), un fenómeno astronómico que vale la pena observar.

Los privilegiados serán quienes viven en el campo, pues para su observación se requiere un lugar oscuro y sin la molestia de las luces de la ciudad.

No es necesario utilizar ningún tipo de instrumento óptico, pues se verá a simple vista mirando hacia el lado este, a partir de las 03:00 de la madrugada hasta que las primeras luces del crepúsculo matutino a las 05:51 dificulten su observación.

El profesor Blas Servín, responsable del Centro Astronómico Bicentenario, explica que un meteoro no es otra cosa que restos de cometas y ocurre cuando la Tierra en su órbita alrededor del Sol se encuentra con una corriente de materiales dejados por un cometa, en este caso por el cometa Halley.

5 de Mayo de 2011 00:44
 
It seems to be a perfectly normal meteor shower... I didn't know... :-[

http://meteorshowersonline.com/eta_aquarids.html

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is the first of two showers that occur each year as a result of Earth passing through dust released by Halley's Comet, with the second being the Orionids. The point from where the Eta Aquarid meteors appear to radiate is located within the constellation Aquarius. Sadly, this location is a bit of a detriment to observers, because this area of this sky only rises an hour or so before morning twilight begins.

Every year, the earliest Eta Aquarids can be seen around April 21 and they persist until about May 12; however, the number of meteors you are likely to see will be low until around the time of the peak on May 5/6. At this time, observers in the Northern Hemisphere are likely to see about 10 meteors every hour, while Southern Hemisphere observers will see about 30 per hour.

So... it looks like it isn't unusual. :lol:
 

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