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Find maps and viewing tips for the meteor showers of 2009 from the International Meteor Organization.
Welcome to the 2009 International Meteor Organization (IMO) Meteor Shower Calendar. Of the more active annual showers, the Quadrantids, Lyrids, and Southern Aquariids, Orionids, Leonids and Geminids are best placed with regards the Moon, along with the occasionally stronger Ursids in December. Of greatest potential interest for what they may produce are the Aquariids and Orionids (which should be near their theoretical 12-year ZHR peaks in 2009, the Orionids having already produced unexpectedly strong activity in both 2006 and 2007, albeit apparently not from this cause), the moonlit Perseids, which may show an additional maximum again this year, and the Leonids, which could yield ZHRs in the 100+ category, maybe (if we are very fortunate) bordering on near-storm levels again! For radio observers, and hopeful daylight fireball enthusiasts, there is the chance of another Taurid 'swarm' return in June-July. There are minor showers to be monitored as well, and ideally, meteor observing should be carried out throughout the year to check on all the established sources, and for any new ones. We appreciate this is impractical for most people, so the Shower Calendar has been helping to highlight times when a particular effort might most usefully be employed since 1991.
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