Leonids Meteor Shower 2012 Peak: When to Watch in O'Fallon

Shooting stars will be flying the night of Nov. 17 over O'Fallon—not as many as some past years—but it promises to be a show worth watching.

Leonids Meteor Shower 2012 Peak: When to Watch in O'Fallon

Shooting stars will be flying the night of Nov. 17 over O'Fallon—not as many as some past years—but it promises to be a show worth watching.

It's time again for one of the most noteworthy of the year's sky shows, the annual Leonids Meteor Shower, which in some years has been spectacular. This year, however, is predicted to be somewhat less so. The Leonids has been called, in some years, a "meteor storm" (rather than just a "shower"), but reports say this year will be limited to "at best 10 to 15 meteors per hour." The last Leonid storm, with thousands of shooting stars per hour, was in 2002. A report from MSNBC says there is a reason this year's display is a bit different: "Two peaks of activity, one on Saturday morning and another on Tuesday morning (Nov. 20)." Watch for the meteors to emanate from the constellation Leo (get it? Leonids?), from around 10 p.m. St. Louis time. …

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