What large-scale meteor showers are there in 200 1 year?

200 1 year, there is a large Leonid meteor shower.

The Leonid meteor shower, which arrived as scheduled in the early morning of 200119, was the first meteor rainstorm observed in China since the 20th century. The maximum peak of star showers lasting for five or six hours reached more than 654.38+00,000 times per hour.

Leonid meteor shower is a meteor shower with Leo as the radiation point. It occurs every year between 165438+ 10, and there is a big explosion every 33 years, which is called star rain. Due to the limitations of observation, China has not had the opportunity to encounter four starbursts since the 20th century. The reason why the meteor shower can be clearly observed in the early morning of 200119 is that the moon phase is the first quarter moon, and it leaves early in the middle of the night after the new moon, which is less disturbed by strong light, and the weather is clear, which makes the meteor shower very clear.

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About the Leonid meteor shower:

The Leonid meteor shower, known as the king of meteor showers, is a meteor shower connected with Comet Templeton, with a period of about 33 years. Every year 165438+ 10 month 14 to 2 1 or so. Generally speaking, the number of meteors is about 10 to 15 per hour, but the Leonid meteor shower has a peak every 33 to 34 years, and the number of meteors can exceed several thousand per hour.

This phenomenon is closely related to the period of Comet Temple Tuttle. Leonid meteor shower occurs every year from 1 14 to 2 1 in 10, especially from 1 17 in 10, and the general azimuth is about 40 degrees north. Leonid meteor shower is caused by the existence of a comet named Temple-tuttle (55P/ Temple-tuttle).