The Leonid Meteor Shower Explained in 10 Facts

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Each year around Nov. 17-18 the Leonid meteor shower peaks, offering up several shooting stars an hour. In some years there are dramatic bursts in which many meteors rain down every minute. Learn what's behind this fickle show.

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It is cloudy and overcast where I am at. No Leonids this year it seems for me. Last night I did briefly view 4 Vesta asteroid using my 10x50 binoculars, retrograde motion in Cetus. I tracked the asteroid moving retrograde from Taurus into Cetus using my refractor telescope and binoculars since 03-Nov-19. The heliocentric solar system is enjoyable. Watching the sky action is fun, meteor showers are part of that and so too asteroids changing their positions among the stars.