Orionid Meteor Shower Tonight

Meteor Shower Tonight, yay!! Assuming you live in a place where the pollution (light and environmental) hasn’t completely destroyed your view of the night sky…get outside tonight to see the Orionid Meteor Shower!

Years and years ago Haley’s Comet shot through space leaving comet debris in its wake.  And now, every year when the Earth passes through that trail, sand-grain-sized bits of space crap vaporize in Earth’s upper atmosphere and we see “shooting stars” in the night sky.  This is reported to be one of the best meteor showers of the year with peak activity happening around 6 am ET.

“Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour,” said Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office.

I don’t know about you…but I’m whipping up a batch of adult hot chocolate and heading out into the night for a spectacular show!