APOD 2.3

This picture "Meteor Between the Clouds" caught my interest for several reasons. First of all, meteors and comets have always been of great interest to me in the Astronomical realm. It is for this reason that I picked Comets and Meteors as my topic of choice for this quarter's Astronomy Project, which we have to make a multimedia presentation on. Thus it is to my advantage to examine and research all sorts of information about comets and meteors, which this article provides a wealth of. Also the picture and relevant article is quite intriguing because the picture taken is of a meteor that was sighted during the Leonid Meteor Shower that happened earlier this week and my class stayed up late to view. I did not attend the observation session, however this picture makes me wish that I had been there for it. While reading the article that goes along with the picture, I also learned that the Leonid Meteor shower is caused by Comet Tempel-Tuttle.