There's a chance of a meteor shower Monday night

During the annual Perseid meteor shower in August of 2021, there are a lot of fireballs in the sky.

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There is a chance of a meteor shower on Monday and Tuesday.

Earth will travel through the debris trails of a broken comet named 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann or SW3 on Monday night.

Will a new #meteorshower, the tau Herculids, put on a spectacular show the night of May 30-31? Maybe, maybe not, according to NASA's planetary science division.

The best time to see the shower is at 1 a.m. on the East Coast or 10 p.m. on the West Coast. The Virtual Telescope Project can be used to view the shower.

Lee Mohon wrote on NASA's Watch The Skies blog that they can't be certain what they'll see.