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2. The Perseids are here. Here's how to see the 'fireballs' of ...

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   The Perseids are back to dazzle the sky with bursts of light and color. ... The Northern Hemisphere will have the best view of the Perseids. This year's peak coincides with a moon around 44% full ...

3. It's Perseid meteor shower time: Here's how to watch in ...

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   The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most spectacular observable from the U.S., and its timing during the summer offers stargazers more comfortable viewing options than some of the winter showers.

4. Perseid meteor shower put on quite a show when it peaked ...

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   A shooting star from the Perseid meteor shower streaks through the night sky amid the vivid colors of aurora borealis over the North Sea near Pilsum, Germany, on Aug. 12, 2024. / Credit: Matthias ...

5. List of meteor showers - Wikipedia

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   This list of meteor streams and peak activity times is based on data from the International Meteor Organization while most of the parent body associations are from Gary W. Kronk book, Meteor Showers: A Descriptive Catalog, Enslow Publishers, New Jersey, ISBN 0-89490-071-4, and from Peter Jenniskens's book, "Meteor Showers and Their Parent ...

6. Perseids - Wikipedia

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   The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle that are usually visible from mid-July to late-August.The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear from the general direction of the constellation Perseus and in more modern times have a radiant bordering on Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis.

7. Meteor shower - Wikipedia

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   [5] [6] [7] In the modern era, the first great meteor storm was the Leonids of November 1833. One estimate is a peak rate of over one hundred thousand meteors an hour, [ 8 ] but another, done as the storm abated, estimated more than two hundred thousand meteors during the 9 hours of the storm, [ 9 ] over the entire region of North America east ...

8. Perseid meteor shower 2024 set to peak in coming days: What ...

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   The name Perseid meteor shower or Perseids comes from the Greek Perseidai, or sons of Perseus, referring to Greek mythology, according to the Farmer's Almanac. More: August 19 moon is a full moon ...

9. Zeta Perseids - Wikipedia

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   The Zeta Perseids (ζ–Perseids) are a daylight meteor shower that takes place from about May 20 to July 5. [1] On the peak date of June 13, the radiant is only 16 degrees from the Sun. [ 3 ] The shower was discovered at Jodrell Bank Observatory in 1947 using radio equipment. [ 1 ]