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Credit & Copyright: B. Yen (Comet-Track)
Explanation:
The 1998
Leonids Meteor Shower was perhaps the most
photographed meteor event in history.
Patient
observers saw
bright meteors streak across
dark skies every few minutes,
frequently leaving
fading trails
stretching across the sky.
High above the
Anza-Borrego Desert, a meteor was
photographed streaking up from the radiant
constellation of the
Leonids:
Leo.
This meteor train covered over 40 degrees, and changed
colors
from
green to red.
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Leonids - meteor
Publications with words: Leonids - meteor
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- Meteor over the Bay of Naples
- Fireball over Iceland
- APOD: 2023 August 23 B The Meteor and the Galaxy
- APOD: 2023 July 16 B Meteor and Milky Way over the Alps