PR DEPOK – People in almost all parts of Indonesia, can watch meteor Rain Monocerotid which entered its peak period starting today, Thursday 9 December to 10 December 2021.
Meteor Rain Monocerotid can be seen by the public with the naked eye starting at 19.40 local time until the end of the dawn or the next day exactly 25 minutes before sunset from east to west.
Quoted from the official page EIGHT, Thursday 9 December 2021, Monocerotid is meteor Rain minor whose radiance is near the constellation Monoceros.
Monoceros radian point is located directly adjacent to the constellations Orion and Gemini.
“This meteor shower (Monocerotid) sourced from the dust remnants of asteroid 2014 TG10, which orbits the sun with a period of 3.34 years EIGHT.
according to EIGHT, intensity meteor Rain Monocerotid in Indonesia it will reach 1.9 to 2 meteors per hour (can be seen from Sabang to Rote Island).
This is because the radian point culminates at an altitude of 71 degrees to 88 degrees in the north direction.
While intensity meteor Rain at the zenith there will be two meteors per hour.
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