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Australian Stargazers  Stargazers across Australia are in for a
treat tonight as the sky to the north-east is lit up by a
meteorite shower.  Rob McNaught from the Anglo-Australian
Observatory says the shower is debris from Halley's Comet which
passed through our skies in 1986.  "The meteors that we'll be
seeing were actually released from the comet when it was close
to the sun thousands of years ago," he said.  "And some of these
meteors have been orbiting the sun ever since then, and every
year since then, around May the 5th you do get some of these
particles hitting the Earth's atmosphere and producing shooting
stars."  Tags: astronomy-space