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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?
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2 .What if they held a meteor storm and no meteors came?
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3 .That's what many people are asking after the well-hyped May Camelopardalids meteor outburst turned out to be a dud.
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4 .Most meteors arise from mere dust grains and pebbles in space.
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5 .When Earth passes through a stream of this debris shed by a comet, the particles burn up in our atmosphere, and we see a meteor shower.
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6 .Some astronomers had predicted that on the night of May 23, particles from a comet called LINEAR would bring many meteors to the night sky.
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7 .North America had the best seats for the event.
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8 .And so a lot of people watched and waited.
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9 .But no one saw much.
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10 .Meteor showers are common, and the best produce about a hundred meteors per hour.
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11 .But meteor storms, which can send out thousands of meteors per hour, are rare and notoriously unreliable.
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12 .Not only can predicted storms go bust, but great storms can erupt without warning.
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13 .In November 1966, the normally weak Leonids surprised everyone and roared back to life, producing more than 100,000 shooting stars in a single hour.
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14 .You can still count on astronomers to tell you exactly when the next eclipse will be.
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15 .But if they ever promise you a meteor storm, you should take it with a grain of, well, meteor dust.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
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