According to the predictions of the experts, the meteor shower that will occur during the month of May will be one of the most intense and formidable of the year . The reason that astronomical observatories, astronomers and hobbyists are so excited about this announcement is because this type of meteor shower has never been seen before . This event will take place thanks to the passage near the Sun of comet 209P / Linear, whose discovery occurred in 2004 and of which there is very little information except that it is a periodic comet whose orbit around the Sun is about five years.
The most intense night will be that of May 24 , when we will be able to observe from Earth how the particles of this comet become spectacular flashes in the sky. Due to the powerful shower of stars that is expected, astronomers describe it as a true “meteor storm”.
The usual thing in a meteor shower is to witness a hundred per hour; the most optimistic opinions speak of about a thousand shooting stars per hour ; the most pessimistic say that there will be about 200 shooting stars per hour. Be that as it may, these data make it, if nothing else, a stupendous meteor shower.
Another of the peculiarities of this meteor shower is that apart from the fact that it will be very active, it will also be very spectacular , because the comet fragments are one millimeter in diameter thick, and this large size (large in astronomical terms) it will make them look much brighter . The Moon will also contribute its grain of sand for a perfect vision, since being in a crescent phase, the sky will have the necessary darkness for an ideal visualization.
