Leonids
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leonids-182-9381409
title:
Leonids
text:
The Leonids are a prolific annual meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle, and are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about every 33 years. The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky. Their proper Greek name should be Leontids with an additional ⟨t⟩, but the word was initially constructed as a Greek/Latin hybrid and it has been used since. The meteor shower p
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids
date created:
2001-11-06T10:45:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T07:16:24Z
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