Armonk Residents Can Start Weekend By Watching Rare Meteor Shower

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – A meteor shower will kick off Memorial Day weekend starting tonight and moving into Saturday.

The Camelopardalids meteor shower will peak over Fairfield County early Saturday morning.
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Nicole Briggs

05/23/2014 3:00 p.m.

CNN reports forecasts of the shower, Camelopardalids, show 200 to 1,000 meteors an hour between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday morning.

NASA's website will host a live chat from 11 p.m. Friday until 3 a.m. Eastern time Saturday, and will offer a live view of the skies over Huntsville, Ala.

This is the first time in nearly a generation that a new shower has shown up.

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