November 2010

Highlights -- The Leonid meteor shower predicted on 17 November 2010 at its peaks @ 21:14 UT

                    (Leonid activity prediction from http://feraj.narod.ru/Radiants/Predictions/Leonids2010eng.html )

Leonid meteor shower in previous years

A composite, all-sky image of the 2008 Leonid outburst over Colorado. During the four evenings of November 16–19, 2008,

Chris Peterson recorded 141 meteors during the Leonid meteor shower. "Because the images were collected over many hours,"

he notes, "the radiant of the shower is spread out.Credit: Chris Peterson, Cloudbait Observatory.

• The 2008 event -- visual report from International Meteor Organization.
• Read more at NASA,  Sky&Telescope, Space.com, StarDate Online.