New Meteor Showers May 24

 

Possible new meteor shower! 

100-200/hour on May23/24 and maybe May 24/25 as well.
One estimate of the peak is 0700-0740 UT Saturday May 24th.
The Camelopardalids, courtesy of Comet 209p/Linear:

From the April 24th “Astrobob” page:
http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2014/04/23/lyrid-meteor-shower-update-potential-meteor-storm-coming-in-may/

http://darkskydiary.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/a-new-meteor-shower-for-2014-the-camelopardalids/

 

FAS President D. Morgan reports….


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