Leonids Fireball, 2002 Leonids is a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle WWW.GOODNEWS.WS from kinetic energy of rotation Watch Video
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Description: http://goodnews.ws/nnThis brief movie captured a fireball bursting through the skies during the 2002 Leonid meteor shower. (NASA/MSFC/MEO/Bill Cooke).n-nViewing campaigns resulted in spectacular footage from the 1999, 2001 and 2002, storms producing up to 3,000 Leonid meteors per hour. Predictions for the Moon's Leonid impacts also noted that in 2000 the side of the Moon facing the stream was away from the Earth but that impacts should be in number enough to raise a cloud of particles kicked off