Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Leonids from Orbit
Explanation:
Here is what a meteor shower [ http://www.imo.net/…] looks like from orbit. During the peak of the 1997 Leonid Meteor Shower [ http://www-space.ar…], the MSX satellite [ http://scies.plh.af…] imaged from above 29 meteors over a 48 minute period entering the Earth's atmosphere. From above [ http://leonid.arc.n…], meteors create short bright streaks. Visible [ http://leonid.arc.n…] beneath the meteors are clouds lit by reflected moonlight, while visible above is the constellation of Aries [ http://www.astronom…]. The directions [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of the meteor streaks are nearly parallel, confirming that the meteors all originate [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] from the same meteor stream. Recent analysis of the 2000 Leonids meteor shower [ http://comets.amsme…] indicates to many astronomers that the 2001 Leonids [ http://www.arm.ac.u…] may develop [ http://adsabs.harva…] into a real meteor storm [ http://www.science.…], with meteor rates [ http://www.atnf.csi…] perhaps exceeding one per second visible from parts of Asia.
Credit and Copyright:
P. Jenniskens [ mailto:pjenniskens@m ail.arc.nasa.gov ] (NASA/Ames [ http://www.arc.nasa…], SETI Inst. [ http://www.seti-ins…]) et al., APL [ http://www.jhuapl.e…], UVISI [ http://scies.plh.af…], MSX [ http://scies.plh.af…], BMDO [ http://www.acq.osd.…]
keyword:
Earth
keyword:
orbit
keyword:
Leonids
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
COMETS
facet_what:
MSX
facet_what:
Aries
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap001129

Leonids from Orbit
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