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Explanation:
Will the Leonids storm this year?
The annual Leonid meteor shower should peak
this weekend and some
predictions suggest that "storm" rates of a thousand or more meteors
per hour are possible for observers located in eastern North
and Central America
during the early morning hours of Sunday, November 18.
Similar high rates are also anticipated for the western Pacific region
on the morning of November 19th.
In any event, the
2001 Leonid
shower should be dramatic and
easy to watch, as were the
Leonids of recent years.
From top left to bottom right above are spectacular
examples of
bright fireball meteors from the 1998 Leonid shower as recorded by
V. Winter and J. Dudley,
Lorenzo Lovato, and
Wally Pacholka.
A 1998 image from the Puckett Observatory at lower left
features the source of the
debris stream which supplies
the Leonid meteors,
comet Tempel-Tuttle.
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Publications with keywords: comet - comet Tempel-Tuttle - Leonids - meteors - meteor shower
Publications with words: comet - comet Tempel-Tuttle - Leonids - meteors - meteor shower
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- APOD: 2024 April 8 Á The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons Brooks
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- Comet 12P/Pons Brooks in Northern Spring
- Structure in the Tail of Comet 12P/Pons Brooks
- Quadrantids of the North