17/11/09 LEONID METEOR SHOWER
a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors over North America followed by a more intense outburst over Asia. Astronomers have predicted that the annual Leonids might put up the most dramatic light show not seen in recent years as the earth passes close to the centre of the comet’s debris trail laid down in 1466.
GOOD TO KNOW;D
Leonids are bits of debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle. Every 33 years the comet
visits the inner solar system and leaves a stream of dusty debris in its wake.
Many of these streams have drifted across the November portion of Earth's orbit.
Whenever we hit one, meteors come flying out of the constellation Leo.
first peak: crossing on Nov. 17th comes around 0900 UT
so this means it's around 3-5pm in sg on tues. which we wont see anything cos sky is super bright still.
second peak: crossing straddles the hour 2100-2200 UT
which means around 3-5am on wednesday!!!
the sky is still darrrrkkkkk;DDD
anyway, i went to read up and this is what i found out!
The Science Centre
Singapore and TASOS are celebrating the International Year of Astronomy (IYA)
2009! so if you wanna catch this shower with others,
Venue: Science Centre,
Japanese Gardens
Time: 8pm – 5am (*8pm – 2am: activities / 2am – 5am: free
& easy)
Price: Free Admission**koped off clubSNAP forum;D
am gonna try my best to persuade my parents to let me watch.
maybe at ecp, or even better, sentosa;D
ohmanzz.
total coolness:)
*exclaims*