Leonids are predicted to be seen 100 per hour on 04:45AM UT to 2:30PM UT at November 19. People who live in western Europe, Africa, Brazil and eastern parts of North America have the chance to see the magnificient scene. The amount of the meteors makes this shower so gorgeous. However, the meteors will not be those large and bright fireballs. Instead, they will be grainny meteors which are small and dim.
However, we are told by Bill Cooke, the head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL to look for the meteors since 17 November to 19 November as the prediction is not always accurately done. He also said that the best time to look is before local dawn.
What are these meteors? They are a stream of debris from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle which visits the inner solar system every 33 years and lays down a new stream of dust, pebbles and rock every visit.
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