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	AMS Meteor Showers page
		Meteor showers are usually named for the constellation in which their radiant lies at the time of shower maximum.
		Sporadic meteors are those random meteors not associated with a particular shower; they are the random detritus left over from the creation of the solar system or are old dispersed debris not recognizable today as shower meteors.
		Meteor activity is best seen in the absence of moonlight so showers reaching maximum activity when the moon is less than 10 days old or more than 25 are much more favorably observed than those situated closer to the full moon.
	www.amsmeteors.org /showers.html (2931 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Leonid Meteor Shower
		The Temple Tuttle comet is passing close by the earth, producing a meteor shower as tiny particles from the comet's tail strike the atmosphere.
		A Leonid meteor shower is a stream of dust particles or debris,sometimes as small as a tiny grain of sand.
		A heavenly display of meteors is predicted to streak across the sky this evening during the second peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower.
	news.surfwax.com /astronomy/files/Leonid_Meteor_Shower.html (2615 words)

	2003 Leonid Meteor Shower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The shower occurs as the Earth crosses the path of debris and material left behind by the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
		The great Leonid Storms are over for now, but we will enjoy a modest display of the meteor showers this year.
		In 2003, the Leonid meteor shower peaks on November 13 (dust trail encounter) and November 19.
	www.fi.edu /tfi/info/current/leonid.html (368 words)

	Leonid meteor storms: NASA's Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The traditional maximum of the annual Leonid shower is earlier on November 17, around 16:45 UT, well placed for the western USA (early morning of November 18 local time).
		Leonids were active too in the previous two nights.
		New molecules have been detected in meteor emissions, and there is now an answer to the long standing mystery of persistent trains.
	leonid.arc.nasa.gov (1794 words)

	Leonid Meteor Shower 2006 -- When, Where, and Why - Planetary News \| The Planetary Society
		However, unlike a typical meteor shower, astronomers are predicting an unusual "outburst" of meteor activity late November 18 - early November 19 (the date it occurs depends on where you live).
		Traditionally, the meteors that make up this shower are much smaller and therefore fainter when they hit Earth's atmosphere and burn up.
		Meteor showers offer a great excuse to sit outside and enjoy nature -- just be sure to pack warm clothes, these November nights get chilly.
	www.planetary.org /news/2006/1113_Leonid_Meteor_Shower_2006__When.html (528 words)

	CNN.com - Leonid meteor shower to light up night sky - Nov 16, 2004
		While the Leonids are so-named because they appear to come from the area of the sky where the constellation Leo is found, the best way to view them is to find a place with a good unobstructed view of the whole sky.
		While meteor showers may make for entertaining skygazing, the risk of getting hit by a meteorite is practically zero.
		Many satellite operators take precautions during meteor showers, such as angling sensitive optics away from the oncoming meteors, or turning solar arrays on edge to the shower.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/11/16/meteor.shower/index.html (607 words)

	Skywatch - Leonid Meteor Shower - November 2001
		The Leonid meteor shower is due to hit on the morning of November 18th for North America.
		Meteors are created when sand- or pebble-size grains strike Earth's atmosphere at high speed and create streaks of superheated air along their paths.
		The Leonids, which are one of a dozen or so annual meteor showers caused by streams of cometary debris, arrive at a blistering 44 miles (71 kilometers) per second — the fastest known.
	www.ufowisconsin.com /skywatch/2001_1117_meteors.html (598 words)

	Leonid Meteor Shower Page
		The f/3.5 lens was not much of a match for the Leonids, since nearly all meteors were of the high velocity type and were either moderate or faint in brightness.
		Several flying pairs of Leonids were spotted during the night; these were characterized by two meteors of about the same brilliance occurring within seconds of one another in nearly the same place in the sky.
		The resulting distribution of meteor brightnesses was logged by Lynn on both nights and is an accurate representation of the different types of meteors that were seen.
	www.eclipsetours.com /leonid (6021 words)

	Leonids
		The Leonid meteor shower has produced some of the most spectacular meteor displays in history, but it is unfortunately periodic in nature.
		The Leonids are barely detectable on the beginning and ending dates, but observers are generally treated to displays of about 10 meteors per hour on the night of maximum.
		He mapped out the dust distribution surrounding the comet by "analyzing the associated Leonid meteor shower data over the 902-1969 interval." He noted that most of the ejected dust lagged behind the comet and was outside its orbit, which was directly opposite to what was expected based on the way comets are known to operate.
	meteorshowersonline.com /leonids.html (2144 words)

	Leonid Meteor Shower
		The Leonid meteor shower is one of several major meteor showers that occur on roughly the same date each year.
		The Leonid shower's name is derived from the fact that its meteors appear to fan out from a point in sky, called the shower's "radiant", which lies within the constellation Leo.
		In 2006, the Leonid shower is expected to peak on the night of Saturday, November 18th (or the early morning hours of Sunday, November 19th!).
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/our_solar_system/meteors/leonid_shower.html (463 words)

	The Leonid meteor shower returns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Leonid meteor shower peaks on Saturday, Nov. 18, this year and will illuminate the night sky with hundreds of shooting stars.
		The meteor shower is named after the constellation Leo (the Lion), from which the meteors appear to radiate.
		Meteors are produced as some of these particles enter Earth’s atmosphere at very high rates of speed and are heated by the friction of the upper atmosphere to produce the streak of light called a meteor.”
	www.nmsu.edu /~ucomm/Releases/2006/november/leonid_meteor.htm (341 words)

	The 2003 Leonid Meteor Shower
		An unusual double Leonid meteor shower is going to peak in Nov. 2003 over parts of Asia and North America.
		The first shower is expected on Nov. 13th around 17:17 UT. For about three hours centered on that time Earth will be close to some dust shed by Tempel-Tuttle in the year 1499.
		A good strategy for moonlit meteor observing: travel to high altitudes where the air is clear or stand in the shade of a tall building or hillside.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2003/10oct_doubleleonids.htm (859 words)

	Leonid MAC '99 - History of the Leonid shower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		At Boston, the frequency of meteors was estimated to be about half that of flakes of snow in an average snowstorm.
		The first increase of Leonid rates announcing the return of the comet was reported in 1994.
		Leonid MAC scientists have a prime view of this 1767 dust-trail encounter onboard the FISTA aircraft.
	leonid.arc.nasa.gov /history.html (1273 words)

	Leonids on the Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Leonid meteorite impacts on the Moon might be visible from Earth and provide a means for long-distance lunar prospecting.
		Last year, during the 1998 Leonid meteor shower, the phase of the moon was new.
		Although optical flashes were not observed on the moon during last year's meteor shower, a team of scientists from the Boston University Center for Space Physics discovered indirect evidence for Leonid impacts.
	www.spacescience.com /newhome/headlines/ast03nov99_1.htm (2066 words)

	Leonid Meteor Shower makes its Annual Return
		The Leonids meteor shower will return on November 19th and although it won't produce a meteor storm like last year, it will still be worthwhile to go outside and observe.
		Meteor showers are also associated with a comet, in this case it's comet Tempel-Tuttle, which sweeps through our part of the Solar System every 33 years and then returns out beyond Uranus.
		As mentioned earlier, the average Leonid meteor is moving at 160,000 mph and that is fast enough to compress the air in front of it, pushing it out of the way like the wake of a boat.
	www.starryskies.com /The_sky/events/meteors (687 words)

	Great Expectations: the 1998 Leonid meteor shower
		This image, showing scores of meteors near the bowl of the Little Dipper, was taken by A. Scott Murrell during the 1966 Leonid storm.
		There were 2-5 meteors seen every second as we scrambled to set up the only two cameras we had, as no real preparations had been made for any observations or photography.
		Meteors can appear in any part of the sky, although their trails will tend to point back toward the radiant.
	science.msfc.nasa.gov /newhome/headlines/ast10nov98_1.htm (1330 words)

	Mrs. Edwards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Meteor showers happen on a regular basis as the Earth’s orbit takes it through the debris left behind by a comet.
		Since the meteors from the Leonids appear to originate in the constellation of Leo the Lion (hence the term Leo-nids), the best time for viewing is when the constellation is above the horizon.
		The best way to view a meteor shower is to lie back and look towards the direction of the “radiant.”; The radiant is the constellation where the meteors APPEAR to be coming (in this case – Leo the Lion).
	www.myschoolonline.com /page/0,1871,40189-144177-44-62537,00.html (571 words)

	Catch a meteor show this weekend - Space.com - MSNBC.com
		That's why this weekend, when the Leonids traditionally should be at their most numerous, we normally would expect to see no more than 10 meteors per hour, even with the promise of excellent viewing conditions thanks to a new moon on the 20th.
		Most of the meteors that were observed were relatively faint — although as is typical of the ultrafast Leonids, there were several brilliant meteors, leaving persistent trains in their wake that lasted for many seconds.
		ET Saturday). Other reputable meteor forecasters such as Thomas Van Flandern of the United States, Esko Lyytinen of Finland and Jeremie Vaubaillon of France confirmed in their own Leonid studies (to within minutes of McNaught and Asher's) that Earth would indeed encounter the 1932 dust trail again in 2006.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/15717478/?GT1=8717 (641 words)

	The Leonid Meteor Shower
		Calling all stargazers—the Leonid meteor showers are expected to light up the pre-dawn sky on Nov. 18 and 19, and experts are predicting that observers in North America, Hawaii, Australia, and Asian countries along the Pacific rim will have the best seats in the house.
		The Leonid meteor shower is a barrage of shooting stars that appears every year on or about Nov. 17.
		While most Leonid meteors are no larger than grains of sand, some may be as large as a meter in diameter.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/leonid6.html (432 words)

	leonid meteor shower 2002 - The shower Spot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Our staff at The shower Spot has put together this great list of leonid meteor shower 2002 related sites to make your life a whole lot easier when looking for information on leonid meteor shower 2002.
		The shower Spot is always looking to add new links on our feature subject leonid meteor shower 2002, so if you know of any great leonid meteor shower 2002 sites, please submit them to our site.
		Planetarium oline the meteorite astronomical society planetarium jackstargazer star party leonid meteor shower 2002, kruglyak august april aquarids planetarium perseus meteorite astronomical society.
	www.westoftheboulevard.org /leonid-meteor-shower-2002/leonid-meteor-shower-2002.html (282 words)

	LEONID METEOR SHOWER
		Indeed, the 1833 shower has been credited with contributing to the intense religious revivals that swept the United States in the 1830s, which permanently influenced the national character and spread new sects and denominations that are well established on the American scene today.
		While the shower of November 12, 1833, sparked the beginning of serious meteor astronomy, it was neither the beginning nor the end of Leonid history.
		The American meteor expert Charles P. Olivier later wrote: "This was the worst blow ever suffered by astronomy in the eyes of the public." The failure of the shower to manifest itself undoubtedly led to a serious diminution of interest in meteor astronomy.
	www.iltrails.org /stars.htm (3993 words)

	Turkish Meteor
		Haktan Akdogan, director of the Sirius UFO CEnter in Turkey, reported that a huge meteor was destroyed by a UFO.
		Meteors, or fragments of meteors, do not pulse regularly like this.
		He went back to the airline pilots and they changed their story from that of a cluster of UFOs to that of the destruction of a meteor by a UFO.
	www.cosmicparadigm.com /TurkishMeteor.html (689 words)

	The Truth about the 2002 Leonid Meteor Storm
		Experts have just released their predictions: Depending on where you live (Europe and the Americas are favored) Leonid meteor rates in 2002 should equal or exceed 2001 levels.
		Meanwhile, the constellation Leo (from which Leonid meteors stream) will be high in the southern sky, well away from the sinking Moon.
		During the Perseid meteor shower in 1984 [when the Moon was bright] I saw 9/hour for 3 straight hours.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2002/10may_leonids-2002.htm (1432 words)

	Meteor Shower, eclipse, stargazing cruises Hawaii 2005 2006
		Typical Lyrid meteors are nearly as bright as the main stars in the Big Dipper, which makes it a good shower for both beginning and experienced observers.
		Another characteristic of the Leonids are unexpected peaks other than Nov. 17, so you can keep an eye on the sky during the entire week..
		While the shower's overall duration is much shorter than that of the Perseids, there is a definite plateau of maximum activity.
	sailhawaii.com /meteorshower.html (959 words)

	C&MS: Leonids Made Easy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A meteor, sometimes referred to as a "shooting star," is a particle from space.
		Meteors can be seen on any night, but Earth enters clouds of particles several times each year and the result is a meteor shower.
		In the case of the Leonids the parent comet is named Tempel-Tuttle and it makes an appearance in our skies every 33 years.
	comets.amsmeteors.org /meteors/showers/leonidsez.html (732 words)

	Leonid meteor shower expected this week
		The Guangdong Astronomical Society said Sunday a Leonid meteor shower was expected between Wednesday and Saturday.
		According to astronomers, this year’s meteor shower would be clearly visible to the naked eye although it would depend on local viewing conditions.
		The last time there was a Leonid meteor storm was in 1998 and the next is expected in 2031.
	www.chinadaily.net /english/doc/2004-11/16/content_391886.htm (110 words)

	SPACE.com -- Leonid Meteor Shower Special Report
		This Leonid fireball was caught on video by George Varros on Nov. 17, 2001, from Mount Airy, MD. The bright dot at the top is Jupiter.
		Astrophotographer Wil Milan captured about 4.5 hours of the 2001 Leonid meteor shower from northwestern Arizona, near the Burro Creek Wilderness.
		Leonid Meteor Shower: Sowing the Seeds of Life?
	www.space.com /leonids (269 words)

	Leonid Meteor Shower
		The meteors will be at their peak November 16-19, and should be clearly visible in the night skies.
		The Leonid meteors are debris shed into space by the Tempel-Tuttle comet, which swings through the inner solar system at intervals of 33 years.
		In fact, all the dust that's ever been left is still up there, so the meteors might be dust from 1333 or 1743 or who knows when.
	www.sceala.com /phpBB2/irish-forums-1397.html (386 words)

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