ARLA/CLUSTER: The Perseid Meteor Shower is beginning

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

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The Perseid Meteor Shower is beginning

This week, Earth is entering a stream of debris from Comet
109P/Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower.

Specks of dusty debris hitting the top of Earth's atmosphere faster than
110,000 mph are burning up in the night sky, producing a spray of shooting
stars from the constellation Perseus.

Meteor rates are relatively low now, but they will increase sharply in the
nights ahead. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Aug. 11-13 with
perhaps dozens of meteors per hour visible in bright moonlight.

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