Blog post 8: Meteor Shower

A meteor shower is like a rain of diamond that fall from the sky. When observing or watching you feel relaxed and a night view that full of a raining stars. I really wish to see a meteor shower in real life because its like full of light that is falling a from the sky like a rain. I hope in future I myself see it on my on eyes.

According to David K. Lynch in the article "what cause a meteor shower" in the website geology.com. There are two kinds of meteor the sporadic meteor and the shower meteor. This two meteor is different to each other because the sporadic meteor is like a random bits in the solar system dust that rotates around the sun. Its the one most people see with their naked eyes while gazing the night sky. The sporadic meteor is seldom exceed five per hour. The shower meteor come from the dust that a comets released that travel to our solar system. The meteor shower occurs when the earth itself pass  the trail debris that happened on its yearly orbit around the sun. It only last in a few hours. Even though its a sporadic or shower meteor its a rare view that all of as may not see because it sometimes happened in some specific place in the earth so not all of us may saw it in real life.

I don't know if its an article or a news entitled "draconid meteor shower 2013 to peak tonight after sunset" by Meredith Bennett-Smith in the website huffingtonpost.com. The draconid meteor shower are best observe in the early evening. They said that the sky watchers can optimize the viewing experience by staying away from bright lights so that their eyes can adjust to the darkness at least 20 minutes before the meteor shower. The draconid meteor shower is come from the constellation name draco or dragon. Its like a annual event that happened in october. They say that it happened when earth travel through dust and ice trailing from the comet giacobini-zinner. Its like every meteor shower has its own peak season where you can see them.

Meteor shower happens in many country. I don't really know if the meteor shower already happened in the Philippines. Because I only hear about the eclipse news here but not meteor shower so I wonder when it happens to have a meteor shower in the Philippines.