How to See the Orionid Meteor Shower This Week

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Orionid meteor shower peaks overnight on October twenty-first and twenty-second, with up to twenty meteors an hour, and the best time from New York is about four twenty-five a.m.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEastern.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty an hour, and a Moon that's seventy-four percent lit to spoil it. The sky is doing this on purpose.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's bits of Halley's Comet, which takes seventy-six years to come round.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeventy-six years of travel, and it still arrives to find the Moon in the way.