... The topic was the 1998 Leonid meteorshower on November 17th. ... Every year, there are several meteorshowers that occur at regular times; the ... the comet has recently passed, the meteorshower turns into a brief storm, sometimes ...
... Observations of mass loss . Meteorshowers . Cometary composition . ... A meteorshower is a flurry of meteors that occur at about the same time every year. ... the same time, and that's why we get meteorshowers around the same date every year ...
... During a meteorshower, like the Perseid shower which peaks around August 13 every ... For several minutes in the 1833 shower, over 200,000 meteors an hour were seen! ...
... November 12, 2001 : Will the Lion roar? On the evening of November 17/18, the annual Leonid meteorshower will peak. ... For more info (including general meteorshower observing advice) check out the CCNET webpage (scroll down a bit). ...
... The famous Leonids meteorshower peaks on the night of November 18/19, 2003. ... They have tons of info about the meteorshower, and there is also a very nifty online Java applet that predicts how many ...
... Every November, the Leonid meteorshower peaks with a typical rate of 20 or so meteors an hour. ... Every 33 years or so, however, the shower can turn into a storm of meteors, with thousands an hour flashing across the sky. ...
... November 13, 2000 . The Leonid meteorshower may storm again on Thursday and Friday nights. ... This year, the usually great Perseid meteorshower will be washed out by the Moon, which will be up almost all night. ...
... There's a meteorshower, and they have a couple of small telescopes set up. Good: . ... Good: . You don't watch meteorshowers through a telescope! ... sees a couple of meteors within a few seconds, which implies a pretty dense shower ...