The Leonid shower is among the most spectacular. According to EarthSky, there have been years when there has been a meteor "storm," with rates for the 1833 Leonid shower hitting an incredible ...
The annual Leonids meteor shower is due to peak next week, hopefully giving stargazers a treat to brighten up the dark winter evenings. The Leonids are due to show between November 3 and December 2 ...
The Leonids result from the Earth passing through the trail of the comet Tempel-Tuttle (55P/Tempel-Tuttle), which was first discovered in 1865. But meteor shower predates that: The 1833 event is ...
The meteor shower has had a number of outbursts of ... The Leonids were described as "stars that fell like rain." In 1833, the Leonid storm was so intense that NASA reports it led "to the ...
This weekend, the ongoing meteor shower reaches its maximum ... Every 33 years or so, the Leonid meteors can enter a storm phase. In 1833, as many as 50,000 to 150,000 meteors per hour — enough ...