Browsing our busy solar system, with all meteor showers on […]

Browsing our busy solar system, with all meteor showers on display. Turn sound on for my narration.

You can dive in here: https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/all The fine folks at the SETI Institute pointed me to this, and they are hosting the data: http://cams.seti.org/FDL/

The meteor showers are disintegrated comets… and where do these comets come from? “It is thought that most comets originate in a vast cloud of ice and dust that surrounds the solar system. The Oort Cloud, as it is called, extends several thousand times farther from the Sun than Pluto, the outermost planet. A star passing near the solar system may have disturbed the motions of some comets in the Oort Cloud, sending them into the solar system.” — Smithsonian NASM, where Pluto is still a planet! https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/comets/origins.cfm