... In fact, strong meteor showers, known as `meteor storms', have been seen many times ... meteor storms come in two types: a `normal' storm, comprising many visual meteors ...
... This year's annual Geminid meteor shower is active during the period December 7 - 17 ... is one of the best of the annual meteor displays, usually having a high number of ...
... by the Kazan research group, Kondrat'eva, Reznikov and colleagues (applied to various meteor streams, not just the Leonids) showed that meteor storms or sharp meteor outbursts are generally associated with the passage of the Earth through dense regions of ...
... of some enhanced activity from the Leonid meteors, and over a week earlier than the ... Armagh Observatory, one of the world's leading authorities on meteor stream dynamics ... the parent comet of the Leonid meteors, which normally peak around Nov 17 ...
... success of the Asher/McNaught approach in predicting the time of the meteor storm was hailed by the editor of the International Meteor Organization 1 as equal in importance to the basic understanding of how meteors work, following the famous 1833 storm ...