Meteor showers are best seen on certain dark and clear nights.
This visualization is developed and hosted by Ian Webster. Their meteoroid orbits are based on those measured by NASA's CAMS video camera surveillance network, and were calculated by meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. Select the meteor shower in the menu to see the corresponding meteoroid stream in space. This visualization shows these meteoroid streams orbiting the Sun, some stretching to the outer regions of the solar system. Some comets are no longer active and are now called asteroids. These meteoroids are sand- and pebble-sized bits of rock that were once released from their parent comet. Meteor showers on Earth are caused by streams of meteoroids hitting our atmosphere.
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