BOSTON (1010 WINS) -- Stargazers in New England, New York and Western Europe could see an "outburst" of hundreds of meteors this weekend during the annual Leonid meteor shower — if the skies are clear enough.

A typical Leonid shower in November brings 10 to 20 meteors an hour under ideal viewing conditions — a dark sky filled with stars and free of light pollution.

But this year, the Earth is passing through a denser trail of debris left by the Comet Tempel-Tuttle, causing a higher concentration of meteors, said Brian Marsden, a senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge.


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