The Leonids is one of the most prominent annual meteor showers producing fast and bright meteors for skywatchers willing to brave the cold.
This material entersat high speeds vaporizing and causing streaks of light that we call meteors. Larger pieces of debris, often the size of pebbles, explode as fireballs over Earth as they enter our planet's atmosphere.
When Earth passes through this debris cloud once a year in November, debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle enters Earth's atmosphere at around 160,000 miles per hour creating streaks of light and the occasional fireball. On this day in November 56 years ago the Leonids produced one of the most infamous meteor showers in living memory with thousands of meteors seen every minute during a 15-minute period that morning.
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