Novina Putri Bestari, CNBC Indonesia
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Friday, 12/08/2023 15:55 IWST
Photo: Illustration of a meteor shower. (Doc: Freepik)
Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Meteor showers will once again decorate Indonesia’s skies. Puppid-Velid occurs from the beginning of the month until December 15, 2023.
Jakarta is one of the cities that can see this meteor shower. During this period, people can see it in the direction of the Vela constellation.
Peak activity occurred around midnight last Friday (8/11/2023) with the best display before dawn. At its peak, around 7-10 meteors per hour fall.
Collect In The Skythe Earth’s rotation makes the city of Jakarta face the optimal direction of meteor arrival, the maximum amount of vertical downward rain, and a short path approaching the point of emission.
Meanwhile, on other days, there will be fewer meteor showers falling in the Jakarta sky. Meteors enter the atmosphere at an oblique angle, making them long-lived enough to cross large areas of the sky before burning up.
For information, meteor showers occur when the Earth passes through a stream of debris left behind by comets and asteroids. The pieces are shaped like sand that spreads along the parent object’s orbit.
Shooting stars will be seen in this phenomenon when one of the debris hits the Earth’s atmosphere. Namely, it occurs at an altitude of 70-100 km.
There are various kinds of meteor showers that occur all the time. These meteors can be distinguished from each other because their paths radiate out from a common point.
The reason is that sand particles in a particular flow move in the same direction as when crossing Earth’s orbit. Because its orbit is similar to the parent object.
In The Sky suggests seeing the most meteors not in the beam of the object. However, the dark sky is 30-40 degrees from that location.
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2023-12-08 08:55:00
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