LEONID METEOR SHOOTS ACROSS THE SKY IN NEVADA, 2002-11-19 (photo)

A Leonid meteor streaks across the sky over Valley of Fire State Park, about 65 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada in this four-minute camera exposure in the early morning hours of November 19, 2002. The meteor shower is a result of the earth's orbit passing through debris from the comet Temple-Tuttle. The light show is caused by small pieces of the comet burning up as they hit the atmosphere at over 160,000 mph. The meteor shower is visible every mid-November and gets its name from the fact that the meteors appear to radiate from a point in the constellation Leo. REUTERS/Ethan Miller EM/ME