Annual Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks This Week – NASA https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/watch-the-skies/2015/10/19/annual-orionid-meteor-shower-peaks-this-week/
Orionid meteors appear every year around this time when Earth travels through an area of space littered with debris from Halley’s Comet. This year the peak will occur on the night of Wednesday, Oct. 21 into the morning of Thursday, Oct. 22. “The Orionids will probably show weak activity this year,” says Bill Cooke of the …
Even if the shower is a dud, the rest of the sky is dynamite.