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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?

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What if they held a meteor storm and no meteors came?

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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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Most meteors arise from mere dust grains and pebbles in space.

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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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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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North America had the best seats for the event.

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And so a lot of people watched and waited.

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But no one saw much.

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Meteor showers are common, and the best produce about a hundred meteors per hour.

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But meteor storms, which can send out thousands of meteors per hour, are rare and notoriously unreliable.

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Not only can predicted storms go bust, but great storms can erupt without warning.

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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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You can still count on astronomers to tell you exactly when the next eclipse will be.

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But if they ever promise you a meteor storm, you should take it with a grain of, well, meteor dust.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.

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