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Although a Leonid meteor shower occurs every November, this year’s event was predicted to be much more robust than usual, with meteors falling at a “storm” rate of thousands per hour...
According to astronomers, the next time the Leonid shower will be this strong again...
...students who got out to Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester, on Massachusetts’s Cape Ann, saw not only the brilliant meteor shower, but also Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn...
...Leonid shower occurs each November when the Earth’s orbit passes through the trail of dust left by comet Tempel-Tuttle, which swings around the sun once every 33 years. The dust grains, traveling at 158,000 miles per hour, glow and vaporize as friction heats them up in the upper atmosphere and produces streaks of light...
...Earth intersects those debris trails each year in mid-November, but this year it crossed two unusually dense trails, laid down in 1767 and 1866, which led to the increased rate of this year’s shower. The peak over North America was supposed to occur shortly after 5 a.m., when most students observed the show...