The peak of the meteors will not be visible from Israel, but there will be enough meteors to view tonight (between Wednesday and Thursday). The moon may interfere
Another fly was crushed in the front window of the car. Anyone who drove on country roads saw the occurrence. A fast moving car, a cloud of flying insects and one big mess.
The next time this happens to you, instead of just going out and cleaning the windshield, think of this experiment as an astronomy lesson. The car is the earth. The flies are small pieces of comet dust. The mess on the front window - these are the meteors you see in the meter.
The earth, like a car moving fast around the sun sucks everything that is called in its path. Although there are no insects in space (the last one to claim that there were was Velikovsky who explained the plague of boils, AB), but there are many meteorites, small grains of dust emitted from comets and asteroids. They hit the Earth's atmosphere and immediately disintegrate in flashes of fire - meteors.
This week many meteors will appear over the Northern Hemisphere as our planet makes its way through the dust cloud created by the periodic comet Swift Tuttle. This is the annual Perseid shower that peaks on August 11 and 12.
Just as insects tend to congregate on the windshield and hood of a car, the Perseids congregate in front of Earth's windshield. The atmosphere protects us from the solar wind and comet dust just like the front window protects the passengers from the wind, rain and insects. The front window of the earth is the sky in the hours before dawn. The Earth orbits the Sun as the dawn side first, then it sweeps up everything on that side of its orbit. This is why the best time to see the Perseids is before sunrise.
A good time to watch it would be tonight (for those who read this article when it goes up, at 03:00, it is better to leave immediately). It will be possible to see dozens of meteors despite the brightness of the moon which now shows 66% of its surface.
The side windows on the left and right are also good enough. These windows don't catch many snot, but the few they do collect are worth watching. These insects have a slow angle they leave behind long and colorful marks. The same is true of meteors. When the Perseus group (the source of the Perseids) is low above the horizon, the meteor stream from there will hit the upper atmosphere of the Earth, like flies hitting the side windows of cars. Astronomers call these meteors Earthgrazers and they tend to be long and colorful.
These meteorites do not come in large quantities. The special geometry required to create them accounts for the low number, but even one or two are sufficient. A Loch Eretz meteor is one you will want to see and remember for the rest of your life.
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We also thought about Tel Gezer. Not the closest to Tel Aviv, but possible to reach
The observatory in Givatayim is completely closed today. I wonder if you can see well there (it's a high place but it doesn't seem particularly dark to me).
Where else are there good places that are easy to get there (even for those who don't know the area) near Tel Aviv?
How do you pick a carrot for watching meteors? Does anyone know?
It was very, very beautiful. We live in the north and all the friends went out to the forest until 4 in the morning..
And they were like giants to the bones that burned in front of us..
Does anyone know if it is possible to see the meteor shower also in the USA (center)?
And if so, at what time?
Thanks
About what time? And in what direction?
In the meantime, the pace is quite slow... I don't think I will have the strength to stay up until 3:00...
Yes. Also tonight, meteors are expected in the Perseid shower.
Is there tonight too?
Thank you Tamar and Moran. Corrected, this is how it is when you write at three in the morning.
Thanks for the interesting article.
A small correction in Hebrew at the end - "all the days of your life" instead of "all the days of your life".
Interesting article.
Two annoying spelling errors:
"Carriers" should be "passengers" in the fifth paragraph.
"Your lives" should be "your lives" in the last word of the article.
At what time will it be possible to see the meteors clearly?
Let's hope to find a good place to watch.
Thank you very much father! Can not wait
The article is very interesting to me. The metaphor of a car was very helpful in illustrating such distant and difficult-to-understand processes.
I'm smart, thanks
I would go out to see, but it's dangerous out in the city at such an hour and not because of meteors...
A wish 'ends' when it comes true and not when we asked for it :-). Alternatively, when you reach the end of the wishes in Sde Boker you will start over with those that have not yet been fulfilled (such as world peace and free sex).
A meteor shower is a lovely thing, but here in Sde Boker you can see meteors almost every day. There is never a time when you lie on the cliff outside the lights of the settlement and watch the starry sky, without encountering a falling star. Lots. All the time. In a little while we run out of wishes...