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In an Interstellar Burst, Leonid Meteor Shower to Pass Earth on Tuesday

November 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM | by | Comments (0)

If you find yourself outdoors this Tuesday, November 17, 2009, do yourself a favor and look up. In the right place under the right conditions, you just might be a witness to the Leonid Meteor Shower. Every year at around this time, hundreds of meteors associated with the Comet Tempel-Tuttle streak by the earth, giving observers an amazing show of cosmic activity, and if you've never seen it before, it might be worth the lost sleep.

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