Look up Monday night for a chance to see the Draconid meteor shower. It’s a smaller meteor shower than some, but there is always the chance for a meteor storm.
Keep your eyes on the night skies to see the elusive Draconid meteor shower, expected to peak Monday evening into early Tuesday. Unlike many meteor showers, the Draconids aren’t ones you’ll have to stay up late to witness because the shower is most visible just after nightfall and throughout the evening hours, rather than the early morning, according to EarthSky.
Hundreds or thousands of meteors can be visible per hour during a meteor storm. The Draconids caused a meteor storm in 1933 and 1946, with thousands of meteors per hour, and European sky-gazers reported more than 600 meteors per hour during the event in 2011. The comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner completes an orbit of the sun about every seven years, and the last time it made its closest approach to Earth, in September 2018, many reported seeing an outburst during the meteor shower.
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