Throughout the year as our home planet orbits the sun it regularly plows through debris trails left behind by comets and even asteroids. When that happens we have a meteor shower. There are about a half-dozen decent meteor showers a year …
Read Original Story: Promise of Leonid Meteror shower worth losing sleep – Palm Beach Daily News
Unabated by the brightness of a full moon, a major meteor shower has sky watchers excited to see as many as 30 shooting stars an hour over the Americas – and more than 300 over Asia. The Leonid meteor shower began Friday and runs through next Saturday. …
Read Original Story: Meteor shower set to sparkle – Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Next week, the annual Leonid meteor shower will light up the constellation Leo with a few dozen "shooting stars" in the early morning hours. The meteor shower activity, which observers expect to be visible Sunday through Nov. …
Read Original Story: Leonid meteor shower stokes region's interest in astronomy – GoErie.com
The sky will be falling next week, but you can hold a "shooting star" this weekend. The Leonid Meteor shower peaks the mornings of Tuesday and Wednesday. The streaks you see will be parts of an …
Read Original Story: Shooting-star show heading our way – Cincinnati.com
During the 2009 Leonid meteor shower, you may see anywhere from 30 to 300 shooting stars an hour, depending on whether you’re in the right place to see the showy peak on November 17, experts predict. With the highest number of meteors streaking across …
Read Original Story: 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower: "Strong Outburst" Expected – National Geographic
High Knoll Observatory — In November of 2001, more than 50 local astronomers observed a meteor storm from the Junk Bond Observatory in Hereford, Ariz. At the peak of the Leonid meteor storm (a rare event) observers were able to count more than 3400 …
Read Original Story: Duck! Sierra Vista May be Impact Target! – Sierra Vista Herald
The annual Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak about 3 am Tuesday morning, said Ken Stage, a local astronomy buff and curator of the St. George Observatory in Schriever. The Leonids, associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle, …
Read Original Story: Stargazers take note: meteor shower on Tuesday – Daily Comet
Late Tuesday night, stargazers may see up to 20 meteors an hour streaking across the sky. Some years, it looks as though the sky is raining stars during the annual Leonid meteor shower, said Jim Twellman, a board member of the St. …
Read Original Story: Meteor shower may be viewed Tuesday night – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Every year in mid-November the earth passes through a debris stream left behind by comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. This comet returns to the inner solar system every 33 years, leaving as it goes small bits of dust, most no larger than a sand grain. …
Read Original Story: Heads up! Leonid meteor shower is next Tuesday – Examiner.com
These are artistic representation of Leonid meteor storms of 1833 (right) and 1866 (left). These famous events produced thousands of meteors an hour, startling and frightening the masses. Can we honstly say we wouldn’t be shaken at such an unexpected …
Read Original Story: Looking Up: Lion's share of meteors – Norwich Bulletin
