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Leonids
An annual meteor shower on Nov. 17-18 that has its radiant point in the constellation Leo, near the center of the Sickle asterism. The Leonids are fast-moving meteors, entering Earth's atmosphere at about 250,000 km/hr, and leave many trains. Their parent body is the comet Tempel-Tuttle.
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