Broken comet could leave behind impressive meteor shower

A NASA scientist said the shower 'is going to be an all-or-nothing event.'

NASA said that a meteor shower Monday night into Tuesday morning could be a dazzling display or a bust.

If the fragments were ejected at speeds greater than usual, we could be in for a meteor shower. NASA said that observations from Spitzer found some of the key pieces left behind the broken comet are “moving fast enough.” “This is going to be an all-or-nothing event,” Bill Cooke said, who leads NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. “If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet.”

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