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Leonid Meteor shower, 2001.
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Send to friendHigh Knoll Observatory — In November of 2001, more than 50 local astronomers observed a meteor storm from the Junk Bond Observatory in Hereford, Ariz. At the peak of the Leonid meteor storm (a rare event) observers were able to count more than 3,400 shooting stars in one hour.
That’s very close to one shooting star per second. Some of them silently exploded in the upper atmosphere sending off two or more smaller pieces or some left a reddish gas cloud that glimmered in the sky for several minutes.
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So let’s see here. A meteor shower that occurs every year in mid November
qualifies as a rare event now. Hmm. Ain’t that peculiar. Kind of like, uh,
well gee, I just don’t know what to compare a regularly scheduled event to.