Sunday, August 10, 2008

Perseid Meteor Shower To Peak August 11 and 12


Perseid Meteor Shower To Peak August 11 and 12: "Unlike short-lived solar eclipses or unpredictable auroras, meteor showers regularly offer skywatchers a dazzling show.

Soon the curtain will rise on one of the best of these showers: the Perseids, so called because the meteors appear to originate in the constellation Perseus.

Slated to peak sometime during the night and early morning of August 11 to 12, the shower offers one of the year's best chances to see a shooting sta"

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