Photo: Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks November 17-18



Leonid meteors dot the sky over snow-capped Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, in a time-lapse photo taken November 19, 2001.

The annual light show will peak this year with about a dozen meteors an hour at 11 p.m. EST on November 17.

Photograph by Itsuo Inouye/AP


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