This weekend I'm going to watch annual Leonid Metor Shower.
Leonid meteor shower is associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo.
In November Earth moves through the meteoroid stream of particles left from the passages of a comet. The Leonids are a fast moving stream which encounter the path of Earth and impact at 72 km/s. Leonids which are about 10 mm across have a mass of half a gram and are known for generating bright (apparent magnitude -1.5) meteors. An annual Leonid shower may deposit 12 or 13 tons of particles across the entire planet.
This year the peak of Leonids falls on November 17th 9,30UT, but we have chance to watch lot of meteors through the whole weekend!! My time is saturday before sunrise and after sunset till midnight.
I'm looking forward to it!!