Little small, dust particles shed from the Comet 55 P/Tempel-Tuttle, which was last in the environs of Earth in the year 1998.

From the naked eye’s view, the meteors might appear instigating from a point in the constellation Leo. 

Astronomers forecasted that a strong crest of activity will be visible through leonid meteor shower in 2009.

The meteor shower can be finely viewed from Asia. On Asian continent, astronomers might be able to notice 200-300 meteors every hour.

If the Leonid meteor shower’s climax extended its predicted time period, it might be possible to see the meteor shower’s closing stages from Europe also.

The time to observe the Leonid meteor shower starts from the early hours of Nov16th morning till Nov 17 dawn.

Meteor shower’s performance has got compatible circumstances, so it’s expected that the Leonid meteor shower will be clearly visible in North America, as Moon was not in the sky.

Even stronger occurrence of Leonid meteor shower is predictable to occur at some stage in Asia near the beginning of morning hours of Nov18.