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It turns out that the most important event of June for the residents of Moscow areas – June Bootids. What it is? The most powerful meteorite stream expected next Saturday. At this time, you can will observe a fantastic starfall in the sky. True this holiday is not for everyone, but only for Russians living in Moscow region.
June Bootids, explains Lyudmila Koshman – employee Moscow Planetarium, occur every year from June 26 to 2 July. At this time, our planet enters the orbit of a comet Ponsa Winnecke, where there are many small meteorites, right there rushing to the surface of the Earth and burning in its atmosphere. However this “star holiday” is not always bright and memorable earthlings. It was first observed only in 1916, in since 1927 the stream has become so poor in meteorites that about the June Bootids gradually began to forget. The last splash of this starfall occurred in 1998, when in one hour it was possible to observe up to a hundred combustion of meteorites in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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And this year in the Moscow region you can again observe pretty active starfall. This will happen on June 27 (from Saturday to Sunday) around midnight local time, however at most Moscow is hardly a cosmic miracle because of the huge sky flare. Watch the June Bootids should go to Moscow region. You don’t need to have telescopes or even binoculars. But a good camcorder does not hurt to take this is a star miracle and then share it on the Internet with everyone who was deprived of an “invitation” to this holiday. Or at least for then to count the stars in the sky.
Unfortunately, meteorologists promise bad weather at this time, but are they never wrong? ..
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