Orionid Meteor Shower Date: 10.20.2003 More than a dozen meteors from the annual Leonids meteor shower were caught in exposures snapped over three hours in 2003 from a town near Bursa, Turkey.
The above image shows brilliant multiple meteor streaks that can all be connected to a single point in the sky just above the belt of Orion, called the radiant. The Orionids meteors started as sand sized bits expelled from Comet Halley during one of its trips to the inner Solar System.
Comet Halley is actually responsible for two known meteor showers, the other known as the Eta Aquarids and visible every May.
