What’s Up? Not UFOs, But Meteor Showers

Residents of St. Charles, Batavia and Geneva will have the opportunity to watch three separate meteor shows in the night skies between now and mid-December.

What’s Up? Not UFOs, But Meteor Showers

Residents of St. Charles, Batavia and Geneva will have the opportunity to watch three separate meteor shows in the night skies between now and mid-December.

Those who have seen them know them more as flashing streaks of light in the skies overhead. Sometimes sparks trail from the head as it shoots across the sky. Could is be an intergalactic visitor? The start of an extraterrestrial invasion? Nope — they’re meteors, and Earth is getting a triple feature meteor show that will last into mid-December, just in time for the holidays. Some people refer to meteors as shooting stars, but they are not really stars at all. They start out floating around in space as something called a meteoroid, which can range in size from as small as a speck of dust to something much larger (but not big enough to be an asteroid), according to the website mental_floss. The meteoroid becomes a meteor, according to …

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