Leonid Meteor Shower 2009 Time

The 2009 Leonid meteor shower will reportedly take place tomorrow – 17th November 2009 and will peak at about the same time too.

Sources also say that there is a possibility that the Moon will coincidentally be in its new phase tomorrow, and this will make it among the best Leonid meteor showers to ever take place in recent years.

Earth is likely to be going through one of the denser debris streams at around 4 AM EST (1 AM PST), on Tuesday (tomorrow).

The Leonids are caused by comet Swift-Tuttle, which moves through the inner solar system every 33 years on its orbit around the sun.