Will the Leonids storm this year?The annual Leonid meteor shower should pea this weekend and somepredictions suggest that "storm" rates of a thousand or more meteorsper hour are possible for observers located in eastern Northand Central Americaduring the early morning hours of Sunday, November 18.Similar high rates are also anticipated for the western Pacific regionon the morning of November 19th.In any event, th 2001 Leonidshower should be dramatic an easy to watch, as were th Leonids of recent years.From top left to bottom right above are spectacula examples ofbright fireball meteors from the 1998 Leonid shower as recorded b V. Winter and J. Dudley Lorenzo Lovato, an Wally Pacholka.A 1998 image from the Puckett Observatory at lower leftfeatures the source of th debris stream which suppliesthe Leonid meteors comet Tempel-Tuttle.
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