流星雨英文PPT(Meteor shower and its observation).ppt

protagonist * astronomer * The number is just in theory in fact it is much smaller. * * The Leonids are famous because their meteor showers * 0 1 2 3 4 Meteor shower and its observation By Liu Kai lklkmymym@163.com When you talk about meteor shower…… romance When you talk about meteor shower…… romance lucky When you talk about meteor shower…… disappointed romance lucky When you talk about meteor shower…… disappointed F4 romance lucky What is meteor shower? How to observe meteor shower? Fireworks Long exposure photography Comet 彗星 Iridium Flare 铱星闪光 A?meteor shower?is a?celestial event?in which a number of meteors?are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. Caused by small fragments of comet debris（彗星残片） entering the earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speeds…when the Earth’s orbit（轨道） the comet’s orbit intersect at same point. The radiant point (辐射点) The radiant of a shower is the point in the sky from which the meteors appear to come. Meteor showers are usually named for the constellation（星座） in which their radiant lies at the peak of the shower… Zenithal Hourly Rate?（天顶每小时流星出现率） (ZHR) of a?meteor shower?is the number of meteors a single observer would see in one hour under a clear, dark sky. The most visible meteor shower in most years is the?Perseids, which peaks on 12 August of each year at over one meteor per minute. Perseids（英仙座） Tears of St. Lawrence This is one of the best meteor showers of the year and never seems to disappoint observers. peak on December 13/14 of 50-80 meteors per hour. Geminids （双子座） The Leonid meteor shower peaks around 17 November of each year. Approximately every 33 years, the Leonid shower produces a meteor storm, peaking at rates of thousands of meteors per hour. Leonid （狮子座） ZHR35,000 Each people could see 240,000 meteors during nine hours. 13 November, 1833 Heaven on fire! How to observe…… 1.When? professional prediction @北京天文馆朱进 @天象预报 How to obs