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Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight

| November 17, 2010 @ 3:31 pm | Reply

The annual Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight as Earth passes through a thicket of debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle. So far the shower has been a modest one, with fewer than ~25 meteors per hour according to international counts. The reason: Earth is missing the densest swarms of comet dust.

Clouds will move into Alabama after 10:00 tonight, so we will have to look for meteors early in the evening. Get all of the details on spaceweather.com.

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