{"id":1496502,"date":"2022-05-29T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496502"},"modified":"2022-05-29T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:29:44","slug":"rare-meteor-storm-could-strike-over-holiday-weekend-astronomers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rare-meteor-storm-could-strike-over-holiday-weekend-astronomers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Meteor Storm Could Strike Over Holiday Weekend, Astronomers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frare-meteor-storm-could-strike-over-holiday-weekend-astronomers-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496502&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A rare meteor storm could be visible over North America late Monday night, sending the Memorial Day holiday out with a bang, astronomers have predicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Monday night into Tuesday morning, the Earth may cross paths with the remnants of comet 73P\/Schwassmann-Wachmann (SW3), a defunct comet that broke apart in 1995,\u201d Accuweather meteorologist Brian Lada explained. \u201cAfter SW3 splintered into countless pieces nearly three decades ago, debris from the breakup could intersect the Earth at the end of Memorial Day weekend. If this comes to fruition, it could spark a brief but intense meteor shower over North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2. The potential meteor storm is due to comet 73P\/Schwassmann-Wachmann, which broke apart in 1995. Countless pieces of the splintered comet could hit Earth on Monday night, sparking the best meteor shower in years: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ViP3jKgqdl\">https:\/\/t.co\/ViP3jKgqdl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WoBsPhkT7E\">pic.twitter.com\/WoBsPhkT7E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AccuWeather (@accuweather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/accuweather\/status\/1530898535427751936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society has said that the best time to catch a glimpse of the possible phenomenon will be on Monday night into Tuesday morning, between 12:45 and 1:17 am, ET. The AMS also recommended that viewers start watching the sky an hour prior to the predicted time in case the predictions are slightly off.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5. \u201cStart your viewing session at least an hour prior to the time of the expected outburst, just in case the predictions are off,\u201d the American Meteor Society said: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ViP3jKgqdl\">https:\/\/t.co\/ViP3jKgqdl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Usw0ElYio4\">pic.twitter.com\/Usw0ElYio4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AccuWeather (@accuweather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/accuweather\/status\/1530927946613104642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that this event has a chance of being something spectacular,\u201d the AMS said in a statement. \u201cWhen viewing events such as these, one should expect nothing extraordinary to happen but certainly hope for the best!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While meteor showers occur relatively often \u2014 approximately 30 are visible from Earth every year \u2014 meteor storms are far fewer and farther between. The last major meteor storm visible from the United States was the Leonid Meteor Storm on November 17, 1966. \u201cAt the Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u2019s Table Mountain Observatory in California, observers saw \u2018a rain of meteors turn into a hail of meteors, finally becoming a storm of meteors too numerous to count,&#8217;\u201d Space.com reported. \u201cAt the peak, estimates ranged anywhere from 10 to an incredible 40 meteors per second!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another meteor storm, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/132597a0\">occurred<\/a> in the wake of periodic comet Giacobini-Zinner, took astronomers by surprise in 1933 when it exploded over Western Europe. It was so intense over parts of rural Portugal that residents became frightened. Reports stated that the meteors fell like snowflakes over Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>According to Monday\u2019s reported weather forecasts, the atmospheric conditions should be good for viewing the potential celestial event across most of the United States \u2014 but experts note that ambient light can dramatically impact visibility. Those hoping to see the potential meteor storm are advised to seek out areas with unobstructed views of the sky and as little man-made light interference as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare meteor storm could be visible over North America late Monday night, sending the Memorial Day holiday out with a bang, astronomers have predicted. \u201cOn Monday night into Tuesday morning, the Earth may cross paths with the remnants of comet 73P\/Schwassmann-Wachmann (SW3), a defunct comet that broke apart in 1995,\u201d Accuweather meteorologist Brian Lada &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1496507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}