DRACONID METEOR OUTBURST: On Oct. 8-9, European sky watchers were amazed when a flurry of faint meteors filled the sky at midnight. It was an outburst of the annual Draconids meteor shower. Turns out, that outburst was just the tip of the iceberg. Computer models show that Earth narrowly missed two streams of comet debris that would have caused significant meteor storms had they intersected our planet. Visit Spaceweather.com for the full story.
Above: This computer model from the University of Western Ontario Meteor Physics Group shows Earth shooting the gap between two nearby clouds of comet dust on Oct. 8-9.
