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The eclipse was part of Saros series 136, descending node, as was the solar eclipse of July 11, 1991, which was slightly longer, lasting up to 6 minutes 53.08 seconds (previous eclipses of the same saros series on June 30, 1973, and June 20, 1955, were longer, lasting 7 min 03.55 and 7 min 07.74, respectively).
This list of meteor streams and peak activity times is based on data from the International Meteor Organization while most of the parent body associations are from Gary W. Kronk book, Meteor Showers: A Descriptive Catalog, Enslow Publishers, New Jersey, ISBN 0-89490-071-4, and from Peter Jenniskens's book, "Meteor Showers and Their Parent ...
The Leonid meteor shower peaks around 17 November of each year. The Leonid shower produces a meteor storm, peaking at rates of thousands of meteors per hour. Leonid storms gave birth to the term meteor shower when it was first realised that, during the November 1833 storm, the meteors radiated from near the star Gamma Leonis. The last Leonid ...
On average, the Orionids produce anywhere from 10 to 20 meteors per hour at their peak in mid-to-late October. An exception came between 2006 and 2009 when the 50 to 75 meteors the Orionids put ...
Aug. 12-13: Perseid meteor shower. The Perseid meteor shower will peak between Aug. 12 and Aug. 13. Dubbed the "best meteor shower of the year" by NASA, this shower typically has the capacity to ...
The partial lunar eclipse begins at 1:09 Eastern Daylight Time when you can observe the curved shadow of the Earth steadily blocking out the moonlight. ... Lyrid and Orionids meteor showers ...
Hurricane Bill was a large Atlantic hurricane that brought minor damage across mainly Atlantic Canada and the East Coast of the United States during August 2009. The second named storm , first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season , Bill originated from a tropical wave in the eastern Atlantic on August 15.
The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season was a below-average Atlantic hurricane season that produced eleven tropical cyclones, nine named storms, three hurricanes, and two major hurricanes. [ 1 ] [ nb 1 ] It officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30, dates that conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones ...