November’s wonderful Leonid meteor shower happens every year at this time, as our world moves through space. The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. It occurs when Earth crosses the orbital path of Comet Tempel-Tuttle, which, like all comets, litters its orbit with bits of debris. It’s when this comet debris enters Earth’s atmosphere, and vaporizes, that we see the Leonid meteor shower. 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. northern and southern hemisphere ------ A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth's surface. Intense or unusual meteor showers are known as meteor outbursts and meteor storms, which may produce greater than 1,000 meteors an hour. The Meteor Data Center lists about 600 suspected meteor showers of which about 100 are well established. Метеорный поток شہابیوں کی بارش Chuva de meteoros Pluie de météores زخة شهب Meteorstrom Βροχή διαττόντων Sciame meteorico

1. Leonid
meteor
shower
What is it?

2. November’s wonderful Leonid meteor
shower happens every year at this time,
as our world moves through space.

3. The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower
associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle.

4. It occurs when Earth crosses the orbital path
of Comet Tempel-Tuttle,

5. which, like all comets, litters its orbit with bits
of debris. It’s when this comet debris
enters Earth’s atmosphere, and vaporizes,
that we see the Leonid meteor shower.

6. 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.

7. Northern hemisphere

8. Southern hemisphere