Posts Tagged ‘meteor shower’

I just read that the Leonids will be visible tonight!For those of you who are not major nerds like me, the Leonid meteor shower is a remnant from the comet Tempel-Tuttle - apparently way back in the mid 16th century a bunch of dust and ice got free of the nucleus of the Tempel-Tuttle comet, creating a band of essentially "comet garbage" to trail along it.  The space.com article on this year's shower gives a little history on the Leonid shower and its relation to the Tempel-Tuttle comet: The Leonid meteors are debris shed into space by Comet Tempel-Tuttle, which swings ... Read More»