... A Deep Field In The Southern Sky . ... The 1998 Leonids Meteor Shower was perhaps the most photographed meteor event in history. ... Blazing through the sky at 70 kilometers per second, 100 kilometers or so above planet Earth, many bright Leonid meteors left behind a persistent, smoke-like trail of glowing, hot, ionized gas. ... The 1998 Leonid Meteor Shower featured many bright events. ... Observers there reported a peak rate for the 1998 Leonid Meteor Shower of about 600 meteors per hour. ...