According to EarthSky, there have been years when there has been a meteor "storm," with rates for the 1833 Leonid shower hitting an incredible 100,000 meteors per hour. The Leonids will be best ...

The Leonid meteor shower is known for producing some of the most amazing meteor displays in the annals of astronomy. Most notable are meteor storms such as in 1799, 1833 and 1966 when meteor rates ...

The annual Leonid meteor shower peaks on Nov. 17, ... such as in 1833 and 1966 when meteors fell at stupendous rates in excess of 100,000 per hour. In more recent years, ...

As dramatic as that might be, it can’t hold a candle to the Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833. On the night of Nov. 12-13, so many meteors burned through the Earth’s atmosphere that they seemed to ...

According to EarthSky, there have been years when there has been a meteor "storm," with rates for the 1833 Leonid shower hitting an incredible 100,000 meteors per hour. The Leonids will be best ...

According to EarthSky, there have been years when there has been a meteor "storm," with rates for the 1833 Leonid shower hitting an incredible 100,000 meteors per hour. The Leonids will be best ...

The annual Leonid meteor shower is responsible for some of the most staggering celestial spectacles in modern history. The mid-November event usually produces around 15 to 20 shooting stars per ...

But meteor shower predates that: The 1833 event is said to have produced over 100,000 meteors an hour, and the 1966 shower saw thousands of meteors per minute in a 15-minute span in the early ...

Leonid meteor shower to peak in mid-November, recalling 1966 spectacle. ... The years with the most activity-producing meteor storms were in the years of 1833, 1866, 1966, 1999, ...

A meteor shower and, inset, NASA image of a burst of 1999 Leonid meteors as seen at 38,000 feet. A show or the Leonids is predicted to peak November 16, ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS / NASA/Ames ...