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Weather over Nepal.

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Hum,
i had a quick look just now.
clear cold sky.
One small trailed leonid near Saturn, and another faint one heading towards the horizon; plus a slow white sporadic heading south to north.

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Mid-November brings us the return of the famous Leonid meteor shower, which has a storied history of producing some of the most sensational meteor displays ever recorded.

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Astronomy buffs in Oregon and Washington will be treated to a cosmic event this weekend courtesy of the annual Leonid Meteor Shower.

Watch KGW report on tips for watching Leonid Meteor Showers

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Cloudy weather? Why not listen to meteor activity from Roswell, New Mexico via on Stan Nelson's receivers. The audio is relayed to NASA 24 hours a day.

216.97 MHz. SSB Detection at Roswell USAF Radar at Lake Kickapoo, Texas
67.24 MHz. SSB Detection at Roswell TV-Video Channel 4 Meteor burst.

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The nights and early morning hours of November 17-19 mark the return of the Leonid meteor shower to the skies of Earth. Will it be worth your while to get outside and take a look? Well, that depends on which expert you listen to and where you live.

Viewers along the northeastern coast of the United States and Canada, as well as people in Europe and western Africa might get to see a possible "outburst" of as many as 100-600 meteors per hour. This spike in activity is predicted for 11:45 p.m. - 1:33 a.m. EST on November 18-19 (4:45 - 6:33 UT on November 19).

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Stargazers who brave near-freezing temperatures this weekend might catch a natural light show as the annual Leonid meteor shower peaks.
While Virginia, US, is not the best location for viewing -- Western Europe, Africa and Brazil are favoured this year -- viewers might be rewarded with an outburst of shooting stars expected to begin around 11:45 p.m. tomorrow. The meteors that fall during the two-hour peak are very small meteoroid grains and likely to be faint, however.

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Are the Leonids back? According to McNaught & Asher (1999), there should be an outburst of the Leonid meteor shower in 2006. Our first results (Vaubaillon, 2003, PhD Thesis) suggested that nothing particular was expected, so what the heck is going on here? Later on it was realised that the simulated particles were just too large to efficiently encounter the Earth in November 2006, given the way the simulations are performed. It is clear now that the Leonids are back, but there will definitely NOT be a storm like in the year 1998-2002 (as already forecasted by McNaught & Asher, 1999).

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In his book on the Leonid meteor showers, "The Heavens on Fire," Mark Littmann writes that the Leonid meteor storm of 1833 was so intense, estimated from records to be in excess of 72,000 an hour, that terrified viewers thought the world was coming to an end. Some American Indian tribes called it "the year the stars fell." Approximately every 33 years, the Leonids put on a remarkable display. In 1966 an intense storm gave estimates of 144,000 meteors an hour which led, as 1999 approached, to concerns of satellites being damaged by the next expected peak. In the end, the 1999 display peaked around 4,000 an hour over Europe and no space vehicles were damaged. NASA, to be on the safe side, does not schedule shuttle launches during meteor shower peaks. What will 2006 bring? Estimates range from a low of 45 to a high of 100 meteors an hour. The stream, made up of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, will radiate out of the head of Leo and appear as very fast, bright meteors that leave persistent trails. That the Leonids peak very near the new moon will be an aid in viewing.

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