Many experts have revealed that the best time to see the Orionid meteors is dawn on Friday, October 21, because that’s when it reaches its peak.
According to the “Space” website, it will descend for several days, and its center will be on October 21 of each year, when the Earth collides with a swarm of meteorites known as Orionids, which are small, widely scattered pieces caused by the most famous meteorites. Comet, Halley’s Comet.
This is the second time this year that the Earth has crossed the same stream, as it also passed through it in another part of our orbit for several days during the first half of May, when they shot from a different part of the sky and they are called Eta Aquarids.
In May, Earth encounters debris left by Halley’s Comet as it moves away from the sun, while in October we pass through Halley’s inner path, May and October.
These meteors consist of small particles that heat the air, so meteors appear in the form of streaks of light, commonly referred to as “meteors” or “falling stars”, although they are not stars, but rather grains of dust. , which has been flying in interplanetary space for thousands of years.
And when one of them hits the Earth’s atmosphere, the resulting glowing glow at the end isn’t what you might think, because the meteor itself isn’t what’s shining at all, it’s the glow of the air in front of it entering the atmosphere. At speeds of up to 45 miles (72. km) per second, atmospheric friction releases an object’s kinetic energy into a short-lived streak of light that we temporarily see 60 miles (100 km) above Earth.