Leonid Meteor Shower

On Nov. 17, 2009, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The gritty, dusty debris stream was laid down by the Leonids' parent comet more than five hundred years ago in 1466. Astronomers from Caltech and NASA expect the Leonids to produce upwards of 500 meteors per hour. Forecasters define a meteor storm as 1000 or more meteors per hour. This would make the 2009 Leonids a 'sub-storm'.

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Science & Technology

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• universe
• astronomy
• international
• comet
• meteor
• shower
• leonids

[DeathShamans]

AWESOME VIDEO!!!!!!!

[sssukaPSN]

what happens at 0:23?

[moopy239]

nice vid..sucky music

[raddehc]

would love to have :23 explained- bright flash and then smoke trail lingering, breaking up slowly... I saw one of these once during the perseids- the flash was very bright, it was directly above me (i was watching lying down)... it almost seemed that one had made it far into the atmosphere before burning up? the smoke trail hung very long and seemed to be breaking up from wind, it was not like the 'trail' you see on some meteors. the flash and then trail on this vid are strikingly similar...

[odemata87]

Next to the Orionids these are the best to view. worth the wait in the cold, and terrible music

[unclegenerox]

awesome uncle plus screw the guy who wrote the(WTF) comment!!!

G.!!!

[unclegenerox]

awesome uncle

G.!!!

[Seira88]

WTF is with that music?

[hanibou]

Rectification ! Je ne suis pas restée éveillée pour observer les Léonides, j'ai mis le réveil car chez nous elles étaient visibles vers 5 h 45.

[hanibou]

Quelle chance d'avoir vu ce spectacle ! Moi le 17 novembre 2009 je suis restée éveillée pour observer les Léonides mais le ciel était couvert en Alsace et l'est resté !

Une de mes amies résidant en Provence a eu aussi un ciel couvert cette nuit-là.

[16kings]

@UnNcredible they dont play "fireworks" on the space channel dumbass