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Meteor shower November 17 and Leonid meteor showers and video. Leonid meteors are attracting people in droves. Everybody seems to be interested in having a look at the Leonid meteors. And by the way the dazzling look that these meteors give to the observers more than compensate the long wait that they sometime have to endure in being able to watch the meteor showers. Meteors are better known as “shooting stars”: startling streaks of light that suddenly appear in the sky when a dust particle from outer space evaporates high in the Earth’s atmosphere. We call the light phenomenon in the atmosphere a “meteor”, while the dust particle is called a “meteoroid”. * Size: Most visible Leonids are between 1 mm and 1 cm in diameter. For example, a Leonid meteor of magnitude +5, which is barely visible with the naked eye in a dark sky, is caused by a meteoroid of 0.5 mm in diameter and weights only 0.00006 gram. * Speed That tiny particle can cause a light so bright that it can be seen over distan
In large cities it is impossible to view a meteor shower due to all the “light pollution.” This article contains video filmed where the meteor shower was visible: See video of Leonid Meteor Shower November 2009 November 17, 2:43 PM Salt Lake City Headlines Examiner Marci Stone The Leonid Meteor Shower can be viewed around the world from November 13-20, 2009. Astronomers estimated the peak to be early Tuesday morning (the 17), but the showers can still be seen through the 20th. The video below was taken of the Leonid Meteor Shower early Monday morning and the activity in it significant, and it wasn’t taken during the peak. The best hours to view the Leonid Meteor Shower are after 1:30 am EST and before sunrise each morning until November 20, 2009. The Leonid Meteor Shower reappears each year after the Earth passes through Comet Tempel-Tuttle, and when the comet gets closer to the sun in its orbit, it sheds material and creates clumps in its orbit. When this occurs, thousands of meteors
The annual Leonid Meteor shower is at its peak early today morning. The night sky would dazzle with the Leonid meteor shower. According NASA experts, and other astronomers USA is going to have a shower of 20-30 meteors per hour while the Asian region will get around 200-300 meteors an hour. The best time to watch the meteor shower in USA is after 1:30 a.m. EST up to before sunrise. Leonid meteor shower travels with a speed of 71 km per second with a visible diameter of 1mm to 1cm. The Leonid Meteor shower is a prolific shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. The name, as it might suggest, comes from their location in the sky visually in alignment with Leo. Leonid’s meteor showers are apparently prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle.
