If you can deal with getting up at 3 am to be at the Museum of Natural History by 3:45 am, then you can get a look at the meteorite rainfall that can be spectacularly seen by telescope at dawn of Wednesday, 17 November. The Museum is charging RD$50 admission. The rainfall of baseball to sand grain sized particles, known as Leonidas, are produced by Comet Tempel-Tyttle as it encounters the Earth, a phenomenon that occurs every 33 years. The phenomenon can be observed from anywhere in the DR at 4:05. It is best to view it from a place where there are little outside lights. As explained, the skies will come alive with a fireworks show, the result of the cascade of lights as 140,000 meteorites per hour cross the sky. While the meteorites do not endanger humans on Earth, they could affect satellites orbiting around Earth.
