The November Orionid Meteor Shower is visible between 13 November and 6 December each year, with peak activity due on the night of Saturday 28 November 2020. The shower takes its name from the constellation of Monoceros (to the east of Orion), from which the meteors appear to radiate. At its peak the November Orionid Meteor Shower produces only about three meteors per hour, and with the Full Moon falling on November 30 this month, viewing is unlikely to be particularly good.
Meteor streams are thought to come from dust shed by comets as they come
close to the Sun and their icy surfaces begin to evaporate away.
Although the dust is separated from the comet, it continues to orbit the
Sun on roughly the same orbital path, creating a visible meteor shower
when the Earth crosses that path, and flecks of dust burn in the upper
atmosphere, due to friction with the atmosphere. However, the parent body of the November Orionid Meteor Shower is unknown.
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