Although this shower is not as spectacular as the Leonids, it is not an ordinary event.

* Leonids, a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle

The Leonids are famous because their meteor showers, or storms, can be, and have been in a few cases, among the most spectacular.

In 1981 Donald K. Yeomans of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory reviewed the history of meteor showers for the Leonids and the history of the dynamic orbit of Comet Tempel-Tuttle.

* The Leonids meteor shower reaches its peak around November 17.

Returning to Cumaná, Humboldt observed, on the night of November 11 – 12, a remarkable meteor shower ( the Leonids ).

An observer of objects in the solar system, Schiaparelli worked with binary stars, discovered the asteroid 69 Hesperia on April 26, 1861, and demonstrated that the Perseids and Leonids meteor showers were associated with comets.

He proved, for example, that the orbit of the Leonids meteor shower coincided with that of the Comet Tempel-Tuttle.

The Leonids meteor shower peaks around 17 November of each year.

The great meteor shower of November 1866 turned his attention to the Leonids, whose probable path and period had already been discussed and predicted by Hubert Anson Newton in 1864.

The novel tells the story of an adolescent runaway from home with a proclivity for violence, known only as " the kid ," who was born in Tennessee during the famous Leonids meteor shower of 1833.

All-sky view of the 1998 Leonids shower.

Leonids in particular are well known for having bright meteors or fireballs which may be across and have of mass and punch into the atmosphere with the kinetic energy of a car hitting at.

With Giovanni Schiaparelli's success in connecting the Leonids ( as they are now called ) with comet Tempel-Tuttle, the cosmic origin of meteors was now firmly established.

His " definitive orbit " for the Leonids coincided with that of the comet 55P / Tempel-Tuttle and therefore suggested the, later widely accepted, close relationship between comets and meteors.

The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky.

The Leonids are a fast moving stream which come close to or cross the path of the Earth and impact the Earth at 72 km / s.

In the case of the Leonids, that tends to peak around November 17, but some are spread through several days on either side and the specific peak changing every year.

Because of the superlative storm of 1833 and the recent developments in scientific thought of the time ( see for example the identification of Halley's Comet ) the Leonids have had a major effect on the development of the scientific study of meteors which had previously been thought to be atmospheric phenomena.

Accounts of the 1866 repeat of the Leonids counted hundreds per minute / a few thousand per hr in Europe.

The Leonids were again seen in 1867, when moonlight reduced the rates to 1000 per hour.

Another strong appearance of the Leonids in 1868 reached an intensity of 1000 per hour in dark skies.

Historical notes were gathered thus noting the Leonids back to 900AD.

But overall the 1998 Leonids were in a favorable position so interest was rising.

Geminids were first observed only 150 years ago, much more recently than other showers such as the Perseids and Leonids.

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In some cases, particularly during the Leonids, the fireballs make bright trails that can stay up for 10 to 15 minutes, according to astronomers.

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