Astronomers are unsure about a new meteor shower that could show up in the sky Friday night into Saturday morning, or it could miss us entirely.

According to the San Jose Mercury News, the Earth will pass through a dust trail belonging to an old comet known as 209P/LINEAR, which was first discovered in 2004. Astronomers said the meteor shower could be a spectacular show, even upstaging the Perseid shower.

Every year in Aug., the Perseid meteor shower usually yields about 100 meteors per hour, but the one potentially scheduled for Friday night could show up to 200 per hour. Astronomers said the dust trail could be very old and if the comet shed bits of ice and dust plentifully enough in the 18th and 19th centuries, the show will be dazzling.

"The shower is really a mystery," Peter Jenniskens, a meteor expert at the SETI Institute, told the Mercury News. "Nobody can tell what's going to happen."

Rick Baldridge, a vice president of the Peninsula Astronomical Society, said this potential meteor shower will be worth checking the sky for.

"Meteor showers are the type of thing anybody can just walk outside and look straight up," Baldridge told the Mercury News.

USA Today reported the meteor shower, dubbed Camelopardalid, is unlike any other because it is not expected to repeat, whereas the Perseid shower can be expected in Aug. every year. The comet's trail is being heavily influenced by Jupiter's gravitational pull.

Camelopardalid, like many meteor showers, was named after the star constellation it was found in. Camelopardalid was first seen to radiate in the Camelopardalis (giraffe) constellation.

"Despite all my computer models and all the meteor cameras, I wasn't around 200 years ago," NASA's Bill Cooke told the Mercury News. "Your guess is as good as mine."

North America will have the best view of the meteor shower and the best time to see it will be late Friday night into Saturday morning.