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狮子座流星雨
Sign in to saveThe 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. The name is derived from Greek and Latin with the prefix Leo- referring to the constellation and the suffix -ids signifying that the meteor shower is the offspring of, descendant of, the constellation Leo.
The Leonids are a meteor shower that occurs every year and is produced by dust particles from the comet Tempel–Tuttle, with the additional distinction of creating especially dramatic "meteor storms" roughly every 33 years. The shower gets its name because the meteors appear to come from the direction of the constellation Leo in the night sky.
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Key facts
- Meteor shower.name
- Leonids
- Meteor shower.image
- 245px
- Meteor shower.caption
- A Leonid meteor during the peak of the Leonids in 2009
- Meteor shower.date
- 902 AD (first record)
- Meteor shower.parent
- 55P/Tempel–Tuttle
- Meteor shower.constellation
- Leo
- Meteor shower.peak
- 17 November
- Meteor shower.velocity
- 70–71
- Meteor shower.zhr
- 15
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- meteor shower
- Constellation
- Leo
- Parent body
- 55P/Tempel–Tuttle
- Image
- 1966 leonids big.gif
- Speed
- 72
- Has parts of class
- zenithal hourly rate
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- Leonids
- day in year for periodic occurrence
- November 18
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Article · 中文
獅子座流星雨 (Leonids[ˈli.əˌnɪdz] lee-uhnids)是與周期大約33年的坦普爾·塔特爾彗星有關的一個流星雨。獅子座流星雨的得名是因為這個流星雨輻射點的位置在獅子座。在2009年,這個流星雨的尖峰時間在11月17日(世界時),每小時的數量可能高達500顆,尚不足以成為流星暴(每小時超過1,000顆流星的大流星雨)。 地球經常會通過彗星殘留下來的流星體質點溪流,在這種溪流裡包含了許多固體的流星體顆粒,而這些顆粒是彗星在接近太陽到木星軌道之內後,被太陽加熱使冰凍的氣體蒸發而連帶被噴射出來的,且典型的顆粒不大於塵埃的大小。流星主要的來源是流星體與空氣分子摩擦並汽化的塵埃 [1] (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), 並且這些與大氣層內單獨的原子碰撞會造成空氣的游離。當空氣的分子重新結合時,溫度會降低並釋放出光子。較大的顆粒會與較小的顆粒流分離,形成火流星或是火球,並在大氣中留下。獅子座流星雨以有許多如此明亮的流星而著名。彗星每次回歸時都會在相似的軌道上留下許多的流星體,它們的差異是受到木星的擾動造成的(完整的說明請參考McNaught & Asher (1999) (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆))。歷次回歸的尾跡一起組成流星體的溪流,可是古老的尾跡已經不能產生壯觀的流星雨(每分鐘只有幾顆流星),因此雖然每年的11月17日都有流星雨,但每年的流星數量都會變化。換言之,越年輕的尾跡在太空中有著越高的粒子濃度,當地球經過時也越容易形成流星暴,相較於週年的背景流星(每小時1到2顆)和流星雨背景(每小時),每小時可以計量到超過1,000顆以上的流星。
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