The Perseid meteor shower lights up the sky in August 2009. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) We’ve all heard of meteor showers, but according to astronomers, we may be due for a meteor storm starting late Friday night and persisting through Saturday morning U.S. time — and its prime visibility will be in North America. The Camelopardalid meteors are a brand-new attraction for the night sky, created by the dusty remnants of a comet named 209P/LINEAR which was discovered in 2004. Already the newcomers are generating a lot of buzz, with many headlines declaring this weekend’s shower a “once-in-a-lifetime” event. "The general consensus is that this week's Camelopardalids will be comparable to a very good Perseid meteor shower with an added possibility of a storm," Geoff Chester, astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory, told the Washington Post. "I'm planning to be out watching."
Astronomers are predicting anywhere from 30 to 100 meteors ...
