It's going to be an exciting month!
Orbiting the sun about every 5.5 years, this comet has continued to disintegrate since its initial disruption. Dozens of bits and pieces have crumbled off the original fragments over the past 27 years.
Normally, that would mean no meteor shower to be had. However, when this particular comet fell apart, it did so awfully violently, shooting out material in all directions at high speeds. And while the pressure of solar radiation would have pushed all the dust-like fragments into the tail, it shouldn't have been able to affect larger debris the size of gravel or pebbles.
In the best-case scenario, we could see a bevy of slow, bright meteors, glowing with a ruddy or orange tint, falling at the rate of scores or even many hundreds per hour.
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