NASA has said a meteor shower from the constellation Thien Dan (Ara), which has never been recorded in history, will appear this fall.
According to Space, this all-new meteor shower will be created when Earth penetrates the unusual rock dust from Comet 15P / Finlay, a comet about 2 km in diameter and can only produce meteor shower for Earth only one time.
The reason is that the comet’s dust flow orbits change shape and size over time. Earth’s orbit will not interfere as regularly every year or twice a year with this flow of dust like other familiar meteor shower objects like Halley’s Comet or the 3200 Phaethon asteroid.
According to Dr. Diego Janches of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, this meteor shower could have come from the constellation Tianan (also known as Te Dan, Latin name Ara). It still has the temporary name “Finlay-id”, taken from the name of the comet instead of the name of the constellation that meteor showers are familiar with.
NASA said a meteor shower could fall this fall. Unfortunately, it will be difficult to observe this unique phenomenon because during the 10 days of fall, the meteor shower will only appear in the sky near the South Pole, the icy waters near Antarctica. With luck, only a few countries in the southern hemisphere can see it.
