A Leonid goes way faster. It can go up to seventy kilometers per second!
it is a shower of meteors.
A Leonid storm is a meteor shower that occurs when Earth passes through a stream of debris left behind by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. This results in a higher-than-normal number of meteors visible to observers. The Leonid meteor shower usually peaks in mid-November.
comet Tempel-Tuffle
The leonid vandeski (Leonids Meteor Shower) is a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle
November 15 through November 20, 2016.
A Leonid storm is a trail of pebbles and dust from a passing comet that causes a spectacular meteor shower. It can be seen each year in November.
The Leonids meteor shower will be at its peak November 17-18, 2011.
The next Leonids shower will be on Nov 17th 2011 it will peak about midnight
The Perseid Meteor Shower occurs in August. The Leonid Meteor Shower occurs in November.
The Leonid meteor shower, often just called the Leonids, occur in November of every year.
All meteor showers are best observed between midnight and dawn, local time. The Leonid shower occurs annually around November 16-17, but you can usually see some meteors a couple of days earlier or later.Precise calculation of the exact time of a meteor shower is not yet possible, but with each year's additional experience, our estimates become more and more accurate.
The Leonids are named because they appear to radiate from the constellation Leo. They don't in reality, it is just the illusion we get from earth.