[Discussion] meteor shower tonight

[Robert Carter]

Sounds interesting...

>
> Hopefully visible tonight will be a big meteor shower, at its peak  
> there may be as many as 100 meteors an hour coming out of Leo, in  
> the North East sky.
>
> http://www.rasnz.org.nz/Meteors/Meteors.htm#list
>
> According to here, it might peak around 10.40pm, but should start a  
> little before that, is supposed to last about 5 hours.
>
> <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:45WfTLDUPN8J:www.weatherforum.org.nz/phpBB3/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D10%26t%3D3818%26start%3D0+leonids+auckland&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz 
> >
>
> The meteors are coming from a trail of debris left by a comet, and  
> every so often Earth passes straight through its trail.
>
> http://www.rasnz.org.nz/Meteors/Leonids.htm
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids

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