Orionid meteor shower to streak across night sky this week

YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS ONE YET HAVE YOU RIGHT UP IN OUR NIGHT SKY WHICH MATTERS BECAUSE EARTH IS LITERALLY PLOWING STRAIGHT THROUGH A TRAIL OF DUST AND DEBRIS LEFT BEHIND BY HALLEY'S COMET AND THAT COMET HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE 1986 BUT WE STILL HIT ITS LEFTOVERS TWICE A YEAR AND NOW THESE TINY COMET PARTICLES ARE HITTING THE ATMOSPHERE AT FORTY-ONE MILES PER SECOND PRODUCING GLOWING TRAILS THAT HANG FOR SECONDS WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE IT RUNS FROM OCTOBER SECOND TO NOVEMBER SEVENTH AND PEAKS OVERNIGHT FROM OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST TO TWENTY-SECOND AND APPARENTLY YOU DO NOT NEED TELESCOPES JUST TWENTY MINUTES IN THE DARK FOR YOUR EYES TO ADJUST ALTHOUGH SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ENGLAND GET THE BEST VIEW WHILE RAIN HITS WALES AND A WAXING GIBBOUS MOON MIGHT DROWN OUT THE FAINT ONES ANYWAY THE QUEUE FOR THE BAR IS SHORTER NOW.

THIS IS SO STUPID AND I LOVE IT BECAUSE AS OF TODAY THE ORIONID METEOR SHOWER IS OFFICIALLY BACK IN OUR SKIES AS EARTH STARTS PASSING THROUGH DEBRIS LEFT BEHIND BY HALLEY'S COMET AND THE PARTICLES ARE HITTING THE ATMOSPHERE AT FORTY-ONE MILES PER SECOND PRODUCING GLOWING TRAILS THAT HANG FOR SEVERAL SECONDS WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE THE COMET ITSELF HAS NOT VISITED SINCE 1986 BUT WE STILL HIT ITS LEFTOVERS TWICE A YEAR AND THE THING IS IT RUNS UNTIL NOVEMBER SEVENTH PEAKING OVERNIGHT FROM OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST TO TWENTY-SECOND AND YOU DO NOT EVEN NEED BINOCULARS JUST TWENTY MINUTES IN THE DARK BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN THOUGH RAIN WILL HIT WALES AND THE MIDLANDS WHILE A WAXING GIBBOUS MOON DROWNS OUT FAINT STREAKS ANYWAY WHERE DID EVERYONE GO?

The Orionid meteor shower, created by debris from Halley's Comet, is active through 7 November and is set to peak overnight on 21 to 22 October.

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