Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Monday, November 15, 2021, and

we begin with two great reasons to keep your eyes on the skies this week. Over the course

of six hours, Thursday into Friday, the moon will slip into Earth's shadow for the longest

partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years. According to NASA, the best viewing will be

at 4 a.m. Eastern time Friday, when the moon's face will be 97% covered, and the sliver

that's left behind glows a deep red. And while Friday gets top billing, there's a pretty

cool celestial warmup. The Leonid meteor showers will peak just before dawn Wednesday, when

our planet passes through what's left of the comet temple tunnel. The debris that

whizzes past Earth will look like fireworks with as many as 15 shooting stars every hour.

One little Antarctic penguin really could have used a map. Maybe it was a wrong turn,

maybe just miss adventure, but the young Adele waddled onto a New Zealand beach last

week after swimming an exhausting 1,800 miles. Surprise locals named the hungry and

tucker-out traveler, Pingu, after the Swiss British cartoon. Luckily, the Christchurch

penguin rehabilitation was able to rehydrate the youngster with fish smoothies and release

it on its way. According to a penguin expert, it's common for these water birds to go for

long swims. It's just rare they go this far, and then managed to find New Zealand's small

islands in the middle of the vast South Pacific.

Eleven-year-old Addison Wheelan is a huge fan of soccer star Ronaldo. So much so, the

Irish tween and her dad plotted away for her to storm the pitch after a World Cup qualifying

match in the hopes of an unscheduled meet and greet. Thanks to Addison's speed, which

she credits to the sprints her own soccer coach makes her do, she evaded security to almost

reach the superstar. When Ronaldo saw the commotion, he waved off the guards, and Addison

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