As we approach the end of the year, it is time to welcome the annual Leonid meteor shower. This shower is associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle and is considered to be one of the most beautiful meteor showers in existence.
This year, the Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak on the early mornings of November 17 and 18, 2015. Also, this year's avatar is expected to be a simple shower and not a meteor storm.
Like most other meteor showers, the Leonid shower is named after its radiant point, the point from where the shower seems to originate in the night sky. In this case, the radiant point is the constellation Leo, hence the name. The Leonid shower occurs when Earth moves through the debris field of the comet Tempel-Tuttle and the small pieces of debris burn up in our atmosphere creating the meteor shower.
