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by Karim Belbacher
Shooting after stars are before shooting stars: You can put it that way, because things are happening fast in May. After the Eta Aquariids, the Eta Lyrids and Arietids are on their way in May. But not everyone is easy to see.
Halley’s Comet leaves behind Eta Aquariids
A shooting star lights up in the night sky over Halle/Saale. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt / Archive
After the Lyrids in April, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower is also active in May. While at the end of April could not move through the earth lyrid meteor shower Gone, since April 19 she has met the shooting stars of Eta Aquariads. These are also called May Aquarids because Delta Aquarids also take place in July. They enter the Earth’s atmosphere at 55 kilometers per hour, where they then burn up as a ball of fire. They are named after the constellation of Aquarius, from which direction they come.
The Eta Aquarids originated in Halley’s Comet and can be seen just before sunrise. Then ten to 15 shooting stars can be discovered just above the horizon. The very bright original Comet Halley is visible with the naked eye every 75 years. He was last seen in 1986. The Eta Aquariids will continue through May 28 and peak on May 5 and May 6. You can then see up to 60 of these fireballs in the sky, depending on how far south you are looking at them in Europe.
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More Meteor Showers in May
Besides the Eta Aquarids, two other Metro currents are active in May. However, Central Europeans will not be able to see one of them because it rains during the day. These are ariatids. They start from the end of the month (May 22) and last till the beginning of July. They are fragments of Comet 96P/Machholz. However, to be able to inspect them, technical support is required.
On the other hand, the Eta Lyrids are more visible. This is a very small meteor shower. A maximum of 3 to 5 fireballs are visible in the sky on May 8. Despite the similarity in their April names, Eta Lyrids is not from the same comet. Rather, they are fragments of C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock). When it passed near the Earth in 1983 and was seen with the naked eye, it received special attention.
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