On the night of December 24th, UC 0097 thousands of streaks of light crossed the sky over Quadrant 01's planet Earth. This shower of lights was the Meiolin Meteor Shower. The night air was lit up with thousands of these small meteors burning up in the atmosphere. The spectacular light show occured between the hours of 0 and 3 hours (12 to 3 am). People lined the street Christmas Eve to witness the most spectacular meteor shower of the century.
"All the stars in the sky seemed like they were falling from their places, it was really an awesome show. One I bet probably was the best ones of all," says civilian Owen Stark from North America. The vast number of meteors crossing the sky exceeded that of any major meteor shower in UC history. The Meiolin Meteor Shower is being called the largest mass of meteors to enter Earth's atmosphere, making it the record-breaking night light show in history. "It was like an early New Years Eve, everybody I knew on the street stayed up just to watch the shower late at night," spectator Greg Malign from North American said. The shower was anticipated on news channels for weeks, which perhaps contributed to the numerous popularity of the late night population.
The meteor activity was discovered four months ago by a female Japanese astronomer by the name of Kirin Yamata. At first, the activity was though to possibly cause a threat to the earth because of the vast numbers. The fear was later relieved by a in depth investigation by a top team of japanese astronomers. "When I first discovered this meteor activity, I thought, my god, this could mean serious trouble. When I turned the discovery over to the rest of the team, it was investigated further, and was later confirmed that all the meteors were too small to cause any damage at all." Dr. Yamata says. She was given the honor of naming the meteor activity; she named it after her grand-daughter.