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Meteornyi dozhd' Leonidy
12.11.2001 18:59 | O. S. Bartunov/GAISh, Moskva

V voskresen'e, 18 noyabrya 2001 goda ozhidaetsya maksimum meteornogo dozhdya Leonidy. V etom godu etot meteornyi potok budet samym moshnym za poslednie 35 let. Intensivnost' potoka, kak ozhidaetsya, mozhet dostignut' 2 meteorov v sekundu. Nablyudat' ego mozhno budet s 14 po 21 noyabrya. Radiant potoka nahoditsya v sozvezdii L'va.

Leonidy yavlyayutsya oskolkami komety Temple-Tuttle, kotoraya proletaet mimo Solnca kazhdye 33.2 goda. Na kartinke (Space.com) pokazana traektoriya komety Temple-Tuttle, kotoraya ob'yasnyaet pochemu Leonidy prinadlezhat k odnim iz samyh bystryh meteorov. Kometa dvizhetsya po orbite vokrug Solnca v protivopolozhnom napravlenii, nezheli Zemlya i drugie planety. Ee oskolki takzhe letyat vdol' etoi orbity so skorost'yu 72 km/s otnositel'no Zemli.

Fotografiya poluchena Lorenco Lovato 17 noyabrya 1998 goda.

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