Today, not a mere meteor shower but a meteor “outburst” or “storm” may spray through the heavens. Nasa is predicting up to 750 meteors per hour from the dust stream of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, known as the Draconid meteor shower.

“Every 6.6 years Comet Giacobini-Zinner swings through the inner solar system. With each visit, it lays down a narrow filament of dust, over time forming a network of filaments that earth encounters every year in early October”, Nasa said.