Look up: The Leonid Meteor Storm
The phenomenon will have its peak tonight, although the ‘shooting star shower’ will last for a few days and sweeps through every 33 years. The Leonid meteors are fragments of the comet that enter in contact with the atmosphere at a speed of up to 20,000 km/h.
Tonight the Leonid meteor shower will peak overnight. The phenomenon, produced when Earth crosses the orbit of the Temple-Tuttle comet, lasts several days.
The phenomenon will have its peak tonight, although the ‘shooting star shower’ will last for a few days and sweeps through every 33 years. The Leonid meteors are fragments of the comet that enter in contact with the atmosphere at a speed of up to 20,000 km/h.
