If you watch the sky during the nights of early June, you may be treated to an unusual display of meteors, or “shooting stars.”
For comet 1930d, as the astronomers call the new visitor to the heavens discovered by the Germans Schwassmann and Wachmann, is expected to cause a meteoric display about June 9, radiating from the region of the sky slightly west of the constellation of Hercules and above the Northern Crown.
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