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what's up form a meteors from Halley's

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Comet dinosaurs in the sky and a blue

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moon rises may is a good month to spot

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some shooting stars as the eita Aquarian

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meteor shower reaches its peak the

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morning of the 6th these meteors are

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actually bits of rock and dust left

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behind by one of the most famous comets

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comet Halley which swings through the

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inner solar system every 75 years each

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year when Earth crosses through Halley's

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trail of dusty debris we see some of

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that material burn up in our skies as

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meteors the shower produces good numbers

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of meteors especially for viewers in the

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southern hemisphere you'll see fewer in

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the northern hemisphere because the

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showers point of origin called the

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radiant doesn't rise until well after

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midnight and won't get too high in the

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sky before dawn still it's always worth

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a look to catch a few shooting stars and

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this year there will be no bright moon

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to get in the way making for great

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viewing under clear skies

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just face eastward between about 3 a.m.

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and dawn and look up although the peak

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is predicted to be on May 6th you should

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be able to catch a few meteors streaking

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across the sky any morning the week

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before or after you probably know that

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an asteroid slammed into Earth 65

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million years ago ending the reign of

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the dinosaurs but did you know there are

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asteroids named after dinosaurs a

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handful of the more than 20,000 named

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asteroids are named for types of the

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extinct reptiles and two of them make

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their closest approaches to earth in May

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asteroid 9 9 5 1 2 ran asaurus on May

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19th an asteroid 9 954 Brachiosaurus on

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May 28

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these ancient space rocks are too faint

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to be seen without a large telescope

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there are residents of the main asteroid

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belt between Mars and Jupiter and never

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come too close to Earth but there are

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plenty of asteroids out there that do

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which is one reason why NASA searches

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for tracks and explores asteroids to be

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better prepared if we ever find one that

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might pose a threat the full moon on May

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18th will be a blue moon usually there

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are three full moons in each season but

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occasionally there are four historically

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the third full moon in a season with

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four full moons is called a blue moon a

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blue moon doesn't actually look blue but

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they are kind of rare on average they

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occur about every two and a half years

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may 18th also marks the 50th anniversary

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of the launch of NASA's Apollo 10

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mission to the moon in 1969 it was like

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a dress rehearsal for the first moon

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landing setting the stage for Apollo 11

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and that one small step just two months

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later here are the phases of the Moon

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from a you can catch up on all of NASA's

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current and future missions at nasa.gov

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that's all for this month