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Definition/Summary:

Leonid meteor shower

Annual meteor storm

• Name origin the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo
• The meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky
• They peak is in the month of November
• Earth moves through the meteoroid stream of particles left from the passages of a comet
• The Leonids are a fast moving stream which encounter the path of Earth and impact at 72 km/s

Expanded info:

• Annual Leonid shower may deposit 12 or 13 tons of particles across the entire planet
• Meteoroids left by the comet are organized in trails in orbits similar to though different from that of the comet They are differentially disturbed by the planets, and to a lesser extent by radiation pressure from the sun, defined as the Poynting–Robertson effect, and the Yarkovsky effect
• These trails of meteoroids cause meteor showers when Earth encounters them

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