Phoenicids Meteor Shower - After fifty-eight years, what's defined as the Phoenicids Meteor Shower was seen once again.
The event took place on Tue. from the Canary Islands. The meteor shower appeared over the Atlantic Ocean, like it happened again so many years ago.
The last time, the sighting was discovered by the Japanese Antartic expedition team. Now, 91 year-old Junji Nakamura was part of the new team of experts. He'd been in the original expedition.
Apparently, the new appearance of the Phoenicids Meteor Shower was calculated by the Japanese experts. They had researched it and expected it to be visible once again on Tue. effectively.
The first appearance took place on Dec. 5, 1956. So, the even more incredible thing is that the Phoenicids Meteor Shower would have happened almost on the same day, for a few days difference.
The reason for this particular meteor shower to be so special is the fact that it is the only one recorded in history, which had an outburst of more than 100 meteors per hour.
Since the first sighting of the Phoenicids, the biggest quantity of meteors per hour seen was 62. And during the peak of the event in 1956, there were 300 meteors per hour, according to Travelers Today.
After 1956, there hasn't been any bigger record. The indications that the meteor shower would take place once again this year, were based on the fact that several dust trails set about on Earth's surface on Dec. 1.
The good spots to watch the Phoenicids are: South America and the Atlantic Ocean, where the team of experts settled to do so. Also, in the northeast part of North America and the western part of Africa, seemingly.
What cause the meteors are streams of cosmic debris entering the Earth's atmosphere.
"I'm so relieved that the meteors appeared at the time I had projected," said Mikiya Sato of the Kawasaki Municipal Science Museum, who calculated the return of the Phoenicids Meteor Shower and Japan Times noted.
