The Minor meteor shower, the Ursids is happening right now. The phase of the Moon on December 22nd in the morning during the peak of the Ursids Meteor Shower will be a waxing crescent with 31% of the Moon’s visible disk illuminated. This is decent news for this shower as there will be less moonlight [...]
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The Ursids Meteor Shower to Peak December 22
Our next meteor shower, the Ursids will peak in the morning hours of December 22, 2008 with a waning crescent moon present in the sky thus shedding less light. The parent comet of this shower, the 8P/Tuttle passed closely to Earth in January of 2008. It is unknown if this will increase the activity of [...]
The Next Meteor Shower – The Ursids Starts Today
The next meteor shower of December 2008, the Ursids, will be more easily observed this year because the moon will be in a crescent phase during their peak on December 22nd. The Ursids Meteor Shower is produced by the comet 8P/Tuttle that passed Earth in its 13.6-year orbit sometime in January of this year. For [...]
Next Meteor Shower
The next meteor shower on our meteor shower calendar is the Ursids. I believe that this shower will be better than the Geminids meteor shower of 2008. The Ursids are on schedule to peak December 22nd in the morning hours after midnight. Like last month the moon washed out most of the visible meteors, but [...]
