The Weather Hindered to Watch the Meteor Shower

Astrologers that spent the whole night to watch the meteor shower stayed unsatisfied because the Leonid meteor shower that is considered to be the best view that had ever happened in Asia was covered by clouds.

The cause of the shower was the fall of high-speed particles from the tail of Comet 55 P/Tempel-Tuttle that was near the Earth in1998.

Nasa forecasted that viewers could observe about 300 meteors raining down every hour.

Moreover, every night about 8 meteors fell per hour.

But because of the weather in many of the viewing hotspots most people were unable to see the shower. For example, in Philippines, Nepal and India, the sky was covered with clouds that blockaded a possibility to view the sky.

Nevertheless, there are people that were able to see the shower. About 1,000 people that stayed in a car park that is situated on the outskirts of Bangkok in Thailand noticed 52 meteors during a couple of hours.

Astronomers from India that were at the Siriska wildlife sanctuary, counted 78 meteors during a four-hour period.

“We could see flashes of light for almost 10 seconds as bright as star Sirius,” said one of the astronomers.

Even in North America it was possible to see the shower from the early hours of the morning until dawn on17 November.

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