Leonid Meteor Shower

20th Anniversary

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As if from heaven The gift given to me is that this once-in-five-hundred-year meteor shower breaks out tonight, and the sky is so clear. It makes me come to Maba now, to escape the noise and lights of Guangzhou, and it makes me look up at the vast sky, open my heart, and think about life. , comprehend life. Life in Maba is very lonely, and work is not going well. I am a very optimistic person, but does this also mean that I lack a sense of urgency? Seeing that many of my classmates who are similar to me have made a name for themselves, how can I not work hard to improve myself? Watching the shooting stars, you can think a lot, a lot? Record the details here to cheer up the heart that has fallen into mediocrity.

2001-11-19

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1. Make a Wish

Everyone said there would be a meteor shower tonight. I lay on the lawn, pillowed my arms, and watched the stars in the sky. The dots of starlight are so dense, like the ripples on the sea on a moonlit night, one star is a wish. A soaring career, sweet love, a happy family, and sincere friendship? Every wish brings infinite hope.

I think of the ancient legend again: God will help you realize any wish you make when the meteor passes by. I opened up the space of fantasy, silently thinking about my wish, and praying to make it when the shooting star passes by.

Don’t everyone have their own wishes? Where there is a wish, there is hope, and where there is hope, there is a goal. Although wishes cannot be realized by meteors, it is meteors that bring people the urge to make wishes, the hope of realizing their wishes, and the determination to pursue their dreams. In a shining moment, they depict the most moving longing.

When the first meteor broke through the sky, I made a wish: I would like to turn into a shooting star and bring endless hope to the world!

2. The first meteor

That was a sharp sword, that was a bolt of lightning. The first meteor was like a javelin, dragging dazzling light across two-thirds of the sky, turning into a golden dragon, flashing and then disappearing into the deep night sky.

Sparkling, straight, firm and powerful, the first shooting star showed people its short but glorious life path in the dark night sky. All the stars were eclipsed at this moment, and Her beauty is more eternal in my heart than the stars!

The first meteor, the most dazzling meteor I have ever seen, with its beauty and philosophy, lit up my heart and shocked my soul in its short life: in the long history In the long river, life is as short as a shooting star, but as long as you go in the direction of your heart, break through the darkness, and move forward indomitably, even if it disappears in the end, you will eventually be able to spark a dazzling light and illuminate the vast world!

To this day, when I feel that the road ahead is dark and confusing, the first shooting star always flashes before my eyes. Her light has been buried deep in my heart along with a firm belief, giving me strength and urging me to go forward. I want to shàng!

3. Enlightenment

Is it the fairy Xian'e who is setting off fireworks and having fun? Are the heavenly soldiers and generals practicing rocket launches? The meteor shower burst out playfully, sprinkling a golden spray in the night sky.

It is very cold tonight, and I am very lonely while waiting for the shooting stars. Time flows quietly without making any sound. A long, long time. There is no trace of shooting stars. I am accompanied by the cold night, the cool breeze, my numb limbs, and the vast silence. When the chill came, my skin became stiff, when the fatigue came, it froze my thinking. Several times I thought: Give up, I won’t see any shooting stars tonight. It’s just the yearning and persistence in my heart that constantly give me courage and strength, making me persevere.

At this moment, when the meteor shower finally comes, one after another golden light competes to cut through the sky, like a poem written by a cosmic poet, a meteor is a moving poem; it is also like a space musician playing music score, each shooting star is a jumping note. There are no words to describe this beauty. I want to thank God for giving me such a beautiful night of meteor showers. I also want to thank God. At this beautiful moment, I realized a philosophy: "Beauty only belongs to those who persevere!" ”

November 19, 2001·Maba

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Postscript

Cold night, cool breeze, 6 degrees Celsius.

In the early morning of November 19, 2001, Xiao Yan, Guo Min, and I braved the harsh weather and tiredness to witness the strongest meteor shower in my country since 1533 on the lawn of the management office.

It’s hard to describe how excited I was at that time. To sum it up, there are three points:

1. It can only be described as dizzying. The meteors flashed and the lights passed by. I hate that my parents have so few pairs of eyes and can't look around the 360-degree night sky.

2. I thought about a dozen wishes early in the morning, but in the end I found that they were not enough. After a few cycles, will the meteor be finished? I keep coming up with new wishes, but I just hate that I don’t have enough wishes!

3. Later, the small meteors couldn’t interest us at all. Only those bright and long bolide meteors could make us more energetic.

At 3 o'clock, the meteors gradually became sparse, and we went back to the dormitory to sleep with a feeling of no regrets in this life. Perhaps it was just because of the short duration of the meteors that they seemed more beautiful. Suddenly I discovered that human language, even Chinese, is not descriptive enough, and it is really difficult to describe the beauty of the meteor shower. So there is no need to use fancy words to describe the meteor shower, just use relatively accurate language to describe it.

1. The first meteor dragged a long orange-red flame across two-thirds of the night sky. It was as straight as a ruler and lasted for nearly two seconds. In such a long time (relative to meteors) Here, the excitement made me forget to make a wish, and I just missed the first shooting star.

2． There is a meteor that is very bright and changes color. It is orange-yellow at first, and then becomes brighter and brighter. The color changes from orange to yellow and then to blue and white. In a flash, every blade of grass on the lawn can be seen.

3． Another very bright meteor had a very short arc of light, but when it flew halfway, it suddenly exploded in half, bursting out with a strong purple-white light. The gas it produces forms a straight cloud and mist, which slowly twists, fades, and dissipates with the wind?

4. The most enjoyable thing is that three shooting stars appear almost at the same time, drawing three parallel lines in the vast night sky in a flash, and the stars are scattered and dotted, like dots of notes on a staff.

5. Meteors emit different lights, some are purple (may contain potassium), some are yellow (may contain sodium), some are green (may contain copper), some are bright red (may contain strontium), and some emit high brightness White light (probably containing magnesium), hey, it looks better than fireworks!

When is the Leo meteor shower in 2021?

The best observation time for the 2021 Leonid meteor shower: This year’s Leonid meteor shower forecast activity period is from November 6 to 30, with the maximum time from the evening of November 17 to the early morning of the 18th. The speed of meteors is very fast, 71 kilometers/second, but the maximum zenith flow rate is only about 10 meteors per hour. It can be viewed with the naked eye: When observing meteors, you must avoid the interference of city lights, otherwise, light pollution will drown out the fainter meteors. However, November 17, 2017 is close to the full moon. The influence of the moon is unavoidable, and the number of meteors that can be observed will be greatly reduced. The Leonid meteor shower has the following two characteristics: First, it is cyclical. Since the cycle of Comet Temple-Tuttle is 33.18 years, the Leonid meteor shower is a typical cyclical meteor shower, with a cycle of about 33 years. , Therefore, this year's Leonid meteor shower will kick off the transition from "light rain" to "heavy rain", and will bloom around 2031; secondly, it is fast, which is the biggest feature of the Leonid meteor shower. Most of the particles in the meteor swarm are very small, but their speed is extremely high, with a speed of 71 kilometers/second relative to the earth. How to observe? The radiant point of the Leonid meteor shower is located in the Leo constellation, a representative constellation in the spring night sky. When it reaches its maximum in mid-November every year, the radiant point rises close to midnight, so observing the Leonid meteor shower cannot begin until late at night. High speed is also an obvious characteristic of meteors in the Leonid meteor shower: meteoroids will enter the atmosphere at a speed of 70 kilometers per second, and the "apparent speed" we see will also be very fast, which can be said to be fleeting. Observing meteor showers requires clear weather. "Light pollution" will also affect people's viewing of meteors. If you are in an urban area, you may only be able to see some very bright meteors. If you go to the suburbs, in addition to seeing the Milky Way, you can also see more faint meteors. You don’t need an astronomical telescope to detect the Leonid meteor shower, just observe it with the naked eye. But choose an environment with a wide field of vision, no light influence, and where you can see 4th magnitude stars.

The best observation point for the 2022 Leonid meteor shower?

Northern Hemisphere.

The peak of the 2022 Leonid meteor shower will be between the evening of November 16 and the dawn of November 17.

The parent body of the Leonid meteor shower is the comet "Temple-Tuttle", which returns approximately every 33 years. Whenever a parent comet passes perihelion, it leaves a large amount of cometary debris in its orbit. These comet fragments meet the Earth and break into the Earth's atmosphere at high speed from the direction of Leo. From the perspective of people on earth, a large number of meteors continue to fall from the direction of the constellation Leo, creating a pleasing Leonid meteor shower.