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Leonid Meteor Shower 2010 - When To Watch, Where You Can Look

The Leonid meteor shower 2010 begun about a week ago and November 17-18 this annual event will reach its peak. Prime time for the Leonids in North The United States will be in the wee hours of the morning Nov. 18th. If you are able to get up really early for the maximum of the Leonids, you will see up to 12 meteors per hour for about two hours before dawn. Rather than chunks of rock hurtling through the sky, the Leonid light show is made up of cosmic dust from the tail of Comet Tempel-Tuttle that vaporizes upon impact using the atmosphere.

Leonids place and time period

The Comet Tempel-Tuttle’s trail of debris is something the earth is beginning to hit with the Leonid meteor shower 2010 hitting right before dawn. The skies will be really dark with a setting moon around three a.m. If you look southeast then you will be able to see it. It could be in the direction of the Leo constellation. Since it looks like the meteors come out of this point like a shower head, the point within the sky is called the “radiant”.

What you should learn about shooting stars

The sun is staying orbited within the opposite direction of the Earth by the comet debris that will cause the Leonid meteor shower 2010. They hit the atmosphere like a head-on highway collision at really high speeds--about forty-five miles per second. When comparing, a rifle bullet is extremely slow. Its velocity is measured at 1,000 meters per second on average. Most of the meteors are about the size of a grain of sand. When the particles vaporize they leave bright streaks in the sky that can linger for a couple of seconds.

Planet conclusion close?

Although the Leonids are one of the more spectacular annual meteor showers, this year their frequency of about a dozen per hour is relatively low. The Leonids weren’t like this between 1999 and 2002. about 1,000 an hour came then. in 1996, there were perhaps even more vaporizing within the atmosphere. It had been at about 10,000 per hour. The Leonids were like crazy rain before individuals knew exactly what meteors perhaps even were in 1833. The shooting stars lit up the sky so it was really bright. Many were worried it was the end of the planet as they would wake up dreary from their rest because of it.

Data from

Astronomy.com

astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2010/11/Leonid%20meteor%20shower%202010.aspx

MSNBC

msnbc.msn.com/id/40033447/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Space.com

space.com/scienceastronomy/top10_leonidsfacts-6.html

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