A Year of Exceptional Meteor Showers
If you like watching the skies for meteors, you will have noticed a spate of announcements of exceptional meteor showers this year. Some brief flurries of meteors from long-period comets, some more extended periods of activity of new showers from other comet types. SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens talks with Beth Johnson about the growing global network of video security cameras that is providing alerts when unusual showers are being detected (http://cams.seti.org/FDL/).