Meteors from obscure shower spotted by NASA cameras
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 09:00
in Astronomy & Space
Camelopardalis. It's a strange-sounding name for a constellation, coming from the Greco-Roman word for giraffe, or "camel leopard". The October Camelopardalids are a collection of faint stars that have no mythology associated with them -- in fact, they didn't begin to appear on star charts until the 17th century.