LEONIDS METEOR SHOWER PEAKS FRIDAY-SATURDAY
Hey, Space Placers! Leonid 2020 Credit: Greg Redfern Are you a night owl and/or an early riser and like to look at the night sky? Midnight tonight into the hours before dawn is just the thing for you as the annual Leonid Meteor Shower is expected to peak during that time frame. Our weather MAY offer clear to partly cloudy skies after midnight with POSSIBLE clearing towards dawn . You will just have to get out and look for yourself. The Leonids were first seen in 902 A.D. and “storm” every 33 years producing 100’s to 1000’s of meteors an hour. The last Leonid storm was in 2001. This year a dark sky site should produce 10 to 15 Leonid meteors an hour and the Moon will have set so it won’t be a light source.. Each year at this time our planet encounters a debris stream of cometary particles made by Comet Temple-Tuttle as it orbits the Sun. As Earth moves in its orbit around the Sun it collides with this debris stream and the particles hit our atmosphere at 45 mile...