samedi, novembre 08, 2003
9:13 AM Full Moon. November's full Moon is known in folklore as the Frosty or Beaver Moon.
Mon 10 Nov
8:00 PM The Moon reaches apogee, subtending an angular size of 29' 25" at a distance of 406,301 km. (252,464 miles).
Mon 10 Nov
Mercury is at aphelion.
Thu 13 Nov
First peak of the Leonid meteor shower. The Leonids are the debris stream from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which last looped around the Sun in 1998. The debris is not uniformly distributed around the comet's orbit however, there is a large "clump" that passes our orbit every 33 years or so. Normally, the Leonids are a meager shower of only a few meteors per hour, but when the clump of debris comes by, the Leonids produce a meteor storm reaching as many as 100,000 per hour, or a couple dozen a second. The 2001 shower was a spectacular display peaking at about 8,000 meteors per hour. The 2003 shower is predicted to have several peaks, with the last expected to be the best. Light from the waning gibbeous Moon will interfere somewhat with this peak.
[source astronomydaily.com]
Sun 9 Nov
9:13 AM Full Moon. November's full Moon is known in folklore as the Frosty or Beaver Moon.
Mon 10 Nov
8:00 PM The Moon reaches apogee, subtending an angular size of 29' 25" at a distance of 406,301 km. (252,464 miles).
Mon 10 Nov
Mercury is at aphelion.
Thu 13 Nov
First peak of the Leonid meteor shower. The Leonids are the debris stream from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which last looped around the Sun in 1998. The debris is not uniformly distributed around the comet's orbit however, there is a large "clump" that passes our orbit every 33 years or so. Normally, the Leonids are a meager shower of only a few meteors per hour, but when the clump of debris comes by, the Leonids produce a meteor storm reaching as many as 100,000 per hour, or a couple dozen a second. The 2001 shower was a spectacular display peaking at about 8,000 meteors per hour. The 2003 shower is predicted to have several peaks, with the last expected to be the best. Light from the waning gibbeous Moon will interfere somewhat with this peak.
[source astronomydaily.com]
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