Up to 20 meteors an hour are expected to streak across the sky during the Leonids meteor shower during tonight and Friday morning.
The Leonids are seen every year in November, when the Earth passes through a cloud of debris trailing the Tempel-Tuttle comet, which orbits the sun every 33 years.
Historically, the Leonids has produced some of the most spectacular meteor showers in history. One meteor storm in 1966 produced as many as thousands of meteors an hour.
The radio telescopes at SETI have been sending a message back along the flight path of the asteroid in universal lingua code, along with details of our worlds resources and population it also included the phrase " You Missed "