The Leonid meteor shower, linked to Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, peaks in mid-November and can produce impressive fireballs and hundreds of meteors during storms.
"Every 33 years or so, viewers on Earth may experience a Leonid storm that can peak with hundreds to thousands of meteors seen per hour depending on the location of the observer," NASA noted.
Observers spotted thousands of meteors per minute during a 15-minute period on the morning of Nov. 17, 1966, in what EarthSky called "one of the greatest meteor storms in living memory."
The best time to view the Leonid meteor shower in California is late on the night of Sunday, Nov. 17, until dawn on Monday, Nov. 18.
Collection
[
|
...
]