Australians will be treated with an “incredible display” as one of the best meteor showers this year streaks across on the morning of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, if weather permits. The Eta Aquariids meteor shower, whose peak activity is usually on or around May 5, was formed by bits of rock and ice that had broken off from Halley’s Comet, the iconic naked-eye comet that appear every 75-76 years. It is believed that the meteors of the Eta Aquariid shower that people currently see separated from Halley’s Comet hundreds of years ago. However, unlike its distant relation, which can only be seen up to twice in a human lifetime, the Eta Aquariids come around to earth every year, usually between April 19 to May 28. “These chunks of ice and rock hurtle through space at incredible speed and then burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere,” astronomer Brad Tucker from The Australian …