on Average, there are about a dozen meteors per hour, and under ideal conditions, approximately 23 per hour, reports the site hemel.waarnemen.com. That is managed by astronomer Marc van der Sluys Radboud University in Nijmegen.
The Orioniden each year in the second half of October. They are called so, because it seems as if they are from the constellation of Orion. It is going to be debris of the comet Halley, which in 1986 along the earth whistled. Each year it draws the earth through the tail of the comet. This burn dust particles in the atmosphere, what we see as a falling star.
As a speck of dust shoots with a velocity of about 66 km per second by the earth’s atmosphere. That is more than 237.000 miles per hour.
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