Major Leonids Show This Weekend
First we get a rare chance to view the magical colors of the aurora borealis?now we can see the biggest Leonid fireball storm in years.
The Leonid shower of 1998 was extraordinary, but the meteor rates never exceeded a few hundred shooting stars per hour. ?We define a meteor storm to be times when observers can see 1000 or more per hour,? says Bill Cooke from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. ?The Leonids of ’98, as spectacular as they were, were not a full-fledged storm.? But this year?s Leonids will be.
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