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stronomers are reporting the debut of a long-anticipated new meteor shower, the Arids, which began showing signs of activity in late September and peaked on October 7th. According>, the meteors originated from comet 15P/Findlay, which ejected large amounts of debris into interplanetary space on visits to the inner solar system in 1995 and 2015 (the comet has a 6-year orbit around the Sun and made another pass through our cosmic neighborhood earlier this year).