The Leonid meteor shower seen over the Azrak desert in Jordan, Nov. 18, 1999. The Leonids - so calle...

1. Leonid meteor shower 2014: How to watch
The Leonid meteor shower seen over the
Azrak desert in Jordan, Nov. 18, 1999.
The Leonids - so called because they
appear in the sky in the region of the
constellation of Leo - are a stream of
minute dust particles trailing behind the
Tempel-Tuttle comet.
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The annual Leonid meteor shower is
expected to peak overnight, just before
Tuesday's sunrise.
The shower comes every November, and in the past has resulted in spectacular shows. In 1966, for
instance, the central and western United States saw tens of thousands browse around these guys of
meteors rain across the skies at the rate of up to 40 per second.
Tonight's shower won't live up to those high
standards. NASA scientists are predicting a
peak rate of 15 meteors per hour, traveling
at 44 miles per second, in what the agency
called "a mild but pretty sprinkling."
Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment
Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight
Center said that the best time for viewing
will be after midnight, when the sky is at its
darkest, and that the shower will peak as
dawn approaches. He recommended finding
a location away from city
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-shower-speaker lights, lying on your back and looking
straight up to catch the flying bits of debris from the comet Tempel-Tuttle.
If getting out of the city isn't an option -- or if you're in the Eastern states, which are currently
shrouded under cloudy skies -- you can catch the meteor shower online. NASA will be streaming the
event from a telescope at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., until sunrise on Tuesday,
as will Slooh Community Observatory.
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