The Leonids are Coming The Leonids are Coming
Break out the coffee, grab a warm blanket and head out of town to find a nice cozy, dark spot in the open wilderness. This Saturday Nov 18th around 11:45 pm Eastern Time, there should be a brief surge in the Leonid meteor activity. This could last up to 2 hours and at the peak, 150 meteors per hour may fall. Afterwards 'only' 100 per hour or so.
The Leonids are bits of debris left behind by repeated passages through the inner solar system of the comet Tempel-Tuttle. Each November, Earth crosses various trails of debris, which have spread out over centuries and millennia. Dense debris trails have caused incredible meteor storms in years, past, notably 1998 through 2002.
I'm going to get in trouble here but I believe in 2000 ( it might have been 1999), I took Glo out to an overlook around an hour away. It sits on the side of the mountain overlooking the valley. Man what a view. I think it was the first time she had seen a shooting star. That night the sky was full of them. The only bad thing was it was cold as heck.
So hopefully the weather will cooperate and maybe I can talk Glo into going out tommorrow night. See ya.
The Leonids are bits of debris left behind by repeated passages through the inner solar system of the comet Tempel-Tuttle. Each November, Earth crosses various trails of debris, which have spread out over centuries and millennia. Dense debris trails have caused incredible meteor storms in years, past, notably 1998 through 2002.
I'm going to get in trouble here but I believe in 2000 ( it might have been 1999), I took Glo out to an overlook around an hour away. It sits on the side of the mountain overlooking the valley. Man what a view. I think it was the first time she had seen a shooting star. That night the sky was full of them. The only bad thing was it was cold as heck.
So hopefully the weather will cooperate and maybe I can talk Glo into going out tommorrow night. See ya.
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