Time exposure photo of the Leonid meteor shower,taken on 18 November 1966,showing numerous meteor trails. The Leonid shower occurs in November each year,usually reaching a maximum of around 10 meteors an hour on 17-18 November. Every 33 years,however,a spectacular shower occurs; the 1966 shower was the richest ever recorded,reaching a rate of 60,000 per hour at its peak. A meteor is a dust particle which enters the atmosphere at speed & burns up due to friction. The Leonid shower occurs when the Earth enters an orbiting stream of debris from the decaying comet Tempel-Tuttle | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / NOAO |
Taille de l’image : | 4591 px × 4062 px |
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