Happenings this Week Where Have You Been All My Life, June Boötids?!This Friday marks the peak of the minor meteor shower known as the Boötids (radiant in the constellation Boötes). According to other—less fun—astronomy news sources, the Boötids can, on rare and unpredictable occasions, produce a flurry of meteors. But in a typical year, they’re about as unproductive as a meteor shower can be. Like, one per hour. (“Unproductive” being this correspondent’s generous choice of...
