14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month, astronomers announced that a new meteor shower was to occur on the night of Friday to Saturday, on 23-24 May. Their prediction proved accurate, but not entirely.
Thus, despite claims that the Camelopardalid meteor shower was to average about 100-400 meteors per hour, the event turned out to be a bit of a disappointment.
Long story short, stargazers only got to observe under 10 meteors per hour, and many were quite upset about it, International Business Times reports.
As predicted by astronomers, folks in the continental United States and in Canada were the ones who had front-row seats to this event.
Still, they were not swept off their feet, not even when the Camelopardalid meteor shower reached its peak around 2.30 in the morning EDT.
This past weekend's meteor shower was the result of our planet's passing through debris left behind by a comet known to the scientific community as Comet 209P/LINEAR.
This comet was discovered back in 2004 and is expected to come within 9 million kilometers (approximately 5.6 million miles) from our planet on May 29.
Despite the fact that this is the closest Comet 209P/LINEAR has ever come to Earth, researchers reassure that the celestial body is in no way a threat to our planet and that people have nothing to worry about.