TINEMU.COM – Meteors or commonly called shooting stars are a phenomenon of the appearance of the trajectory when a space object passes towards the earth’s atmosphere.
Meteors are caused by the earth’s orbit intersecting with the orbits of other space objects such as comets or asteroids, when the earth passes through the orbit of a celestial body, it will produce rocks that fall into the earth’s atmosphere.
Launching from the brin.go.id page, meteors occur at any time with an irregular duration and intensity and number.
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“Meteor showers are a predictable phenomenon with regular numbers and occur in certain months,” explained Andi Pangerang Hasanuddin, Researcher at the BRIN Space Research Center at the DOFIDA (Popular Scientific Fact Dialogue Dialogue in Space Science) event on Wednesday, 22 February 2023.
Furthermore, Andi explained that the meteor shower did not have a negative impact on society and did not result in a thinning of the ozone layer, this was because some of the meteors would be completely burned up by the earth’s atmosphere.
So that people can see this beautiful phenomenon without worry and anxiety, because meteor showers tend to be safe and harmless.
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Meteor showers have different characteristics, intensities, times of observation and constellations, for example the Geminids with an intensity of around 100 meteors/hour are expected to occur in December 2023.
“The closest is the Lyrid meteor which is expected to occur on April 23, 2023, with an intensity of 25 meteors/hour and can be seen starting at 10 pm to the east of Indonesia,” explained Andi.
To effectively observe a meteor shower or other space phenomenon, it is necessary to have clear, favorable weather free of cloud cover. Free from light pollution or artificial light interference generated by human activities. Field of view free of obstructions.
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“If you want to capture a meteor shower, you need a camera all sky which is placed in the direction of the zenith (upwards) so that the camera will record until the night is over, then you can see the meteors passing,” he said.
Andi also explained that meteors that are considered potentially dangerous are meteors that have a size of more than 140 meters with a minimum intersection distance of about 5 million kilometers.
