Meteor shower
Orionids
An October meteor shower whose radiant lies in the constellation Orion, produced by debris from Halley's Comet.
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- Meteor shower
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Connections
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- Type: Meteor shower
- Domain: Scientific connections
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Associated with Halley's Comet.
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- Object type
- Meteor shower
- Graph relations
- 3
- Verified sources
- 2
- Image records
- 0
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Status
- Graph entity
Scientific map
Atlas context
- Associated with
Halley's Comet
- Associated with
Orion
- Meteor shower of parent
Halley's Comet
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Scientific schematic
- Object class
- Meteor shower
- Catalog numbers
- Not recorded
- Graph relations
- 3
- Sources
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- Associated withHalley's Comet
Debris from Halley's Comet.
- Meteor shower of parentHalley's Comet
- Associated withOrion
Radiant lies in Orion.
Continue the atlas
Curated next objects
Halley's Comet
A short-period comet (1P/Halley) that returns to the inner Solar System roughly every 76 years.
constellationOrion
astronomerEdmond Halley
Edmond Halley was an English astronomer who computed the orbit of the comet that now bears his name and predicted its return.
space missionGiotto
ESA's mission to Halley's Comet, which flew through the comet's coma in 1986 and returned the first close-up images of a cometary nucleus, later re-targeted to comet Grigg–Skjellerup.
comet classHalley-Type Comets
Periodic comets with orbits of decades to a couple of centuries, named for their prototype, Halley's Comet.
small body reservoirOort Cloud
A hypothesised spherical cloud of trillions of icy bodies at the outermost edge of the Sun's gravitational influence — the reservoir from which long-period and Halley-type comets are nudged inward.
Data
Scientific data & provenance
Data & provenance
- Stable ID
meteor_shower:orionids- Type
- Meteor shower
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Relationships
- 3
- Graph version
- 1.0.0
Dataset membership
Open data
In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld
Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/meteor_shower:orionids
Scientific quality
Substantial3 of 4 applicable dimensions complete
- Description
- Complete
- Source coverage
- Complete
- Relationship coverage
- Complete
- Review coverage
- None
- Citation coverage
- Not applicable
- Image coverage
- Not applicable
- Timeline coverage
- Not applicable
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- AstronomerEdmond HalleyLinked through Halley's Comet
- Space missionGiottoLinked through Halley's Comet
- Comet classHalley-Type CometsLinked through Halley's Comet
- Small-body reservoirOort CloudLinked through Halley's Comet
- DiscoveryThe Periodicity of Halley's CometLinked through Halley's Comet
- Star10 OrionisLinked through Orion
Sources & references
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.
- IMOInternational Meteor Organization
Meteor shower activity, radiants, and peak forecasts.