Leonids Meteor Shower 2022: Get Outside Now!

The Leonids meteor shower can be seen from 6-20 Nov across much of the Northern hemisphere, but is peaking now! Get outside and have a look!

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Host:

[BadBoyofScience]

Did you manage to see the Leonids? Let me know!

[kelliesharpe]

I can’t remember now if it was the summer or 1985 or 1986 but it was the Perseid Shower that had a storm so amazing that it quite literally looked like it was raining stars. I was a teenagers camping with my parents in Fall Creek Falls..middle Tennessee. There was no internet then and the news didn’t ever talk about meteor showers. I had managed to get away from my parents sight for a little while to walk down to the lake and smoke a cigarette lol. Then the sky started to fall. To be honest it scared the hell out of me because I had no idea what was happening. My father went up to the inn located down the road from the campground to check the 11 o’clock news and ask if anyone knew what was going on and on Wbir in Knoxville had Margie Ison on telling what was happening because so many people were calling news and radio stations about all the stars falling. It was absolutely insane. There was no time between meteors, zero wait time …hundreds were constantly falling. Once he got back and told us what was happening I relaxed and witnessed something I have never and probably will never get to witness again. But since the possibility of it happening again does exist, I watch it each year with a whole lot of hope.