When will a shooting star come?

Question

when will i see a shooting star

Answer 1

The peak of the Perseid meteor shower was this morning but you should still be able to see some residual meteors over the next few nights. Keep looking up.

http://www.imo.net/calendar/2008

This is the calendar site for the meteor showers for 2008 from the International Meteor Organization. Everything you ever wanted to know about meteor showers is on this site. When 2009 gets here, change the date on this link and you will have the new 2009 listing too. This way you wont miss any meteor showers ever again. Enjoy!

Answer 2

Meteors occur every night.

Meteor showers are when there are more-than-average meteors, and they can last for days or even weeks.

The Perseid meteor shower occurs between July 17 and August 24, with the peak at 3:04 UTC on Aug 12. Most meteor showers have peaks that last at least a few nights.

As long as you are at a dark location away from bright lights, and you simply watch the sky (look towards the constellation Perseus in the northern sky, but meteors can be seen over the entire sky) you should see many meteors any night this week. The estimate of the number of meteors during the peak for the Perseids is around 60 per hour.

The best time to view any meteor shower is after local midnight.

Answer 3

There is no way to predict exactly where or when you will see a shooting star.  These are completely random.

"Shooting stars" are actually meteors.  There was a "meteor shower" this week, but I think it is over.

A meteor shower is when the earth passes through the tail of a comet.  This causes LOTS of shooting stars (meteors).  

But EXACTLY when and where you will see one is unpredictable.

Answer 4

Never.  There is no such thing.

This is Astronomy, not medieval myth.

Stars are suns.  Meteors are mainly small particles.

I just wish there was more education in schools about space – we live in the space age, after all.  The term shooting star should have died out as soon as somebody discovered that they had nothing whatsoever to do with stars, which would probably have been in the 16th or 17th centuries.  

OK, to be more helpful.

If you have the patience, and can go out to a very dark place (probably need an adult with you, as I suspect you are a child), you can see meteors on any night.  

The trouble is that people live in cities, and the skies are flooded out with artificial light.  Some cities are so big and bright that you need to get at least 50 miles from them to see a good sky.

Answer 5

Depends where you live you can't just predict one

Answer 6

a shooting star is a meteor

so check the internet for meteor showers

Answer 7

There are millions of such particles colliding with the atmosphere every day (I mean day and night). But since you can only see them at night, and you can only look at a small part of the sky at once, when stargazing you can expect to see a shooting star every 10 to 15 minutes.

Answer 8

You should be seeing a lot of them around now.

Answer 9

Depends where you live and how dark your sky is, as well as a matter of good luck in addition to scientific prediction.

Contrary to an earlier posting the Perseid meteor shower is NOT over though it seems to be past its peak.  

You can obtain predictions for your location on the calendar at Calsky (see below.)

I have also listed the IMO meteor calendar, it is rather technical but at least it gives you dates of the meteor showers and where to look.