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I saw a meteor by Jupiter around 1:30am last night?
Was it part of a meteor shower, or was it just a stray one? I didn't have time to watch for long.
Maybe not stray, but solitary is probably closer to what I meant...
Didn't know they were called sporadics, thanks.
3 Answers
- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's impossible to say without plotting the track. Shower meteors trace back to a common point of origin, called the radiant. Sporadic meteors can originate anywhere in the sky. That's the term you're looking for: sporadic.
- digquicklyLv 71 decade ago
Adam,
We call stray meteors, like the one you saw, "sproadics" or sporadic meteors. They're not associated with any particular shower. They're just dust and debris floating around in various earth crossing orbits that finally happen to run into the earth.
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