Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
(Possible) Taurid Fireball Meteor Shower
(Possible) Taurid Fireball Meteor Shower
Nov 12 all-day
Keep your fingers crossed! Every now and then the Taurid meteor shower — normally modest — produces spectacular fireballs visible even in bright moonlight. Most recently this happened in 2008. Since the meteor stream is rather spread out in space, Earth takes several weeks to pass through it, causing an extended period of meteor activity,[...]
13
14
15
16
17
Leonids Meteor Shower
Leonids Meteor Shower
Nov 17 all-day
The Leonids is an average shower, producing up to 15 meteors per hour at its peak. This shower is unique in that it has a cyclonic peak about every 33 years where hundreds of meteors per hour can be seen. That last of these occurred in 2001. The Leonids is produced by dust grains left[...]
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30