A comet could bring a meteor shower to Earth

Tau Herculidas It’s a choppy name meteor shower Which can appear during the night of May 30 to 31, 2022 due to the comet 73P / Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (SW3). Comets are named after their first sighting, history, and more data.

This comet was discovered in 1930 when it passed 9.2 million km from Earth and on Sunday, May 29, 2022, we tell you that there is a possibility to see it again.

The truth is that this orb it did not become bright enough to be visible to the naked eye; It can only be seen through a good binoculars or telescope.

Also known as SW3, it was discovered by German observers Arnold Schwasmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann in 1930.

According to information received from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Container), orbiting the Sun every 5.4 years, but entered and left the atmosphere eight times between 1935 and March 1974.

Astronomers around the comet meteor shower

It got lost on its next comeback, in January 1985, but was picked up again in early 1990.

Astronomers predict Kite He made another quiet comeback in the fall of 1995. But in early October, the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams suddenly began receiving “Numerous reports From observers around the world on independent discoveries‘A comet with the naked eye, low in the western evening twilight and having a long tail of 1 degree dust. It was 73P/SW3, reports as reported’space.com“.

This was surprising because the comet was never closer to Earth in 1995 than 196 million km and should have been visible only through large-scale telescopes. However, it was 6.5 degrees brighter than expected, and 400 times brighter than expected.

As for the reason for this massive explosion, notes have been made in European Southern Observatory at La SillaChile, that her little heart had been broken into four pieces.

The comet was still very bright on its next visit in the fall of 2000, indicating that two of the fragments discovered in 1995 returned, along with a new fragment, that may have separated during the 1995 return.

In the spring of 2006, the disintegrating comet reappeared, initially showing no fewer than eight fragments, and some of the fragments forming its own sub-fragments.