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 Sky: impressive Leonid meteor shower on Sunday (Figure)
2007   11   16   08:16 Sina Technology
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SAN FRANCISCO 11 16, according to Astronomical Society of Jiangsu Province said that this year the heyday of the Leonid meteor shower in at 11:00 on November 18 around (Beijing time), for an observer for China, 18 and 19 am to sunrise the former is relatively good observation time. Since the early hours of no moon effect, observing conditions were very satisfactory. If the weather was clear across the country are available to the naked eye to watch the sporadic Leonids.
have occurred in violent outbreak of the Leonid meteor shower has been is the focus of public attention in November each year. From 1998 55P / Tempel - Tuttle comet's return began, brought us five years of the outbreak of the Leonid meteor shower. However, in the years after that, Leo meteor shower meteors per hour, the number of zenith (ZHR value) is also reduced to about 20 to 40. unstable flow also makes it difficult to squeeze into the Before that, the meteor shower will not be any significant traffic growth, this year's Leonid meteor shower will be no exception flow is relatively small.
this year, the Leonid meteor shower maximum in Beijing at 11:00 on November 18 about , for an observer for China, 18 and 19, two days before the midnight to sunrise the observation time is relatively good. midnight the day the moon has fallen, almost the radiation at this time point in Leo rising from the east throughout the observation process will not be the moonlight interference, then an hour to several stars visible meteor across the night sky. need to remind the general public interested in observing, as we choose to stay away from city lights to watch the open, to avoid strong light and tall trees or buildings of observation results. As the cold weather, the public must pay attention during the observation warm.
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annual Leonid meteor shower November 14 to 21, especially After Nov. 18 about both the direction of some of the Leonid meteor burst out from this is the Leonid meteor shower. astronomer is now clear that the formation of the parent body of the Leonid meteor shower is Comet Tempel discovered in 1866 - Tuttle.
comet around the sun, while it continues to scatter their own material, like sprinkling pesticides,UGG bailey button, as it cast a moving track of many small particles, but these small particles is not evenly distributed. thin in some places,cheap UGG boots, there are where dense, thin particles when the Earth meets where the meteors appear to small, encountered dense place,Discount UGG boots, the more meteors appear. These small particles are easily affected by various factors and slowly released into the atmosphere, but the comet return , the Earth will pass through its recent release of the dense areas of particles. people on Earth will see a large-scale meteor shower. As a comet Temple Tower Myrtle period 33.18 years, so is the Leonids meteor shower of a typical cyclical It's a cycle of about 33 years. (Ma Weihong)
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