Leonid reach their peak in late Tuesday – Puranoticia (Press Release)

The phenomenon this year promises a maximum rate of 30 meteors per hour. It is a discreet figure when compared with the usual for this meteor shower that will not turn back to observe until 2031.

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The popular meteor shower known as the Leonids will peak on the night of Tuesday 17 to Wednesday 18 November. Although it is expected a low frequency of fireballs, the moon phase will help a good point.

The Leonids this year promises a maximum rate of 30 meteors per hour. It is a discreet figure when compared with the usual for this meteor shower. Furthermore, it will not be able to observe 2031. The good news for this year is that the peak will occur with a crescent moon.

The Leonids are moderately active on November 6 to November 30 . It is dusty debris left in its wake by periodic comet 55P Tempel-Tuttle in his career of 33 years through the inner solar system.

often bluish, the Leonids hit the atmosphere Earth at over 70 kilometers per second, almost the fastest theoretical speed possible, according to the International Meteor Organization.

The Leonids have an illustrious history, dating back to 902 AD with a report in Arab annals of the ‘Year of the Stars’. The great storm of 1833 dazzled residents of the East Coast of the United States, and the show not only inspired the astronomer Denison Olmsted to pioneering studies in the emerging field of science of the meteor shower, but that was attributed the growing fervor to many religious renewal movements that emerged in the 1830s in the United States.

The last outbreak of the Leonids, which reached such an apocalyptic scale was in 1966, when observers in throughout the southwestern United States they reported 144,000 rate sightings per hour. Witnesses say remember this show was an illusion that reminds the effect of jumping at the speed of light in the Star Trek saga, as the Earth collided headlong into dense meteor stream.

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