Are We in for a Leonid Outburst Friday Night? - here's Astroguyz on a potential encounter with a (dense?) 1733 meteor stream this coming weekend -
isn’t an expected storm year per se: the last great outburst from the Leonids ran from 1998 to 2000, and isn’t expected again until around 2033. In 2022, the formal peak for the shower arrives on Thursday, November 17at around ~16:00 Universal Time with a paltry Zenithal Hourly Rate of 10. The fact that this occurs just one day after Last Quarter Moon doesn’t help matters much.So far, not much to brave the cold for.
from the dark sky deserts of Kuwait, with rates approaching 1,000 per hour near storm levels towards dawn. Pickering’s 1923 depiction of an earlier Leonid storm over Niagara Falls, New York. Credit: Public Domain. One thing is for certain: you’ll see zero meteors if you sleep in. We’re over the half-way mark now to 2032-2033, and the next possible ‘storm years’ for the Leonid meteors.
If skies are clear, be vigilant this coming Saturday morning, and watch for a possible meteor stream that has been laying in wait for centuries to ambush the Earth.
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