The Historic Leonids Meteor Shower Is Soaring Through the Sky This Week – Concrete Playground

May has the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, June boasts the Delta Aquariids and December welcomes the Geminids. In November, however, it’s Leonids time.

Arriving at the end of spring in Australia and New Zealand, the Leonids may not be quite as well known as some of its counterparts, but it’s still a shower worth looking up for. And it’s famous for one impressive reason: its spectacular meteor storms. It can feature more than 1000 meteors per hour, but it only occurs around every 33 years — and, sadly, the most recent occurred in 2001. Still, while you won’t spy that kind of intense onslaught in 2020, you will still see meteors. The Bureau of Meteorology predicts there’ll be around five per hour hurtling across…