Earth already has passed through Comet ISON’s debris field — which occurred around January 12, 2014 — but no one detected a meteor shower. For a meteor shower to occur on Earth, two things must happen: A comet’s orbit must pass very close to Earth’s orbit, and dust released from the comet must be near the intersection of these orbits at the same time as Earth.
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