1833 Leonid Meteor Shower

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Leonid MAC - History of the Leonid shower - NASA
1833 - The radiant established In 1833, observers are somewhat familiar with Leonid storms. The storm that year is very intense and the event leads to the first formulation of a theory on the origin of meteors. "On the night of November 12-13, 1833, a …
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Leonid MAC - Accounts from the 1966 Leonid storm. - NASA
These pages are devoted to memories of eye-witnesses of the great 1966 Leonid storm. EYE WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE 1966 LEONID STORM. Blake's poem - Dan Ihara, Deep Springs, CA. 17th birthday on Nov 17, 1966 - Robert Gleaves, North Texas, TX. The second shift - Cal Mowrer Jr., Richardson, TX.
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Leonid meteor storms: NASA's Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft …
Aug 19, 2011 · The International Meteor Organization reports that rates continued to increase and has reached ZHR ~ 42/hr over Europe in the night of Nov. 18/19. This is stronger than expected for the annual Leonid shower and shows that the Filament component has returned.
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Home page of the Meteor Shower Flux Estimator (FLUXTIMATOR).
Calculate what is the best location for viewing the upcoming meteor shower, what night do I need to go out, and how active is the shower expected to be. Calculate the meteor shower activity at your site.
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Leonid MAC - Facts on meteors and meteor showers - NASA
In most years, the Leonids are a rather insignificant annual meteor shower. Rates peak at 13 per hour on November 17. The main activity is between November 13 and 20, but rates are larger than 1 per hour in the period between October 31 and November 30 (in good dark skies early in …
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Leonid MAC - Meteor Storm Predictions 1998 - 2002.
Graph above shows the expected variation of Leonid meteor activity (in numbers per hour under ideal observing conditions). Two Leonid storms are expected with rates higher than in 2001, when the Zenith Hourly Rate peaked at 1,300 /hr for the USA peak.
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Leonid MAC - Press releases.
22, 1999 - The Great Leonid Meteor Storm of 1833: This Feature Story presents a charming, first-hand account of the great meteor shower that marked the discovery of the Leonids and the birth of a new branch of astronomy (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center).
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Leonid MAC - News on Leonid shower research. - NASA
In a recent issue of Earth, Moon and Planets, Peter Jenniskens and David Nugent at NASA Ames Research Center, Ed Tedesco at TerraSystems, Inc., and Jayant Murthy at the Johns Hopkins University report on the first observations of a Leonid meteor shower from space.
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1997 LEONID SHOWER FROM SPACE - NASA
The sensors were first deployed to study a meteor shower on November 17, 1997, when the Leonid shower showed a broad maximum in activity centered at 14 ± 2h UT (Arlt and Brown, 1998).
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Leonid MAC - Info on Leonid shower parent comet 55P/Tempel …
Media Brief. links. Observations and facts on the Leonid shower parent comet. COMET BRIGHTNESS AND APPEARANCE. In November of 1997, the comet was still a simple point of light in even the biggest telescopes and was lagging brightness predictions, being …
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