TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Here is an explanation of perseid meteor shower and how to see it.
Meteors are often called “shooting stars,” but they actually come from debris in space that hit Earth’s atmosphere and burned up.
Quotes nbcnews.com, The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year from about mid-July to late August.
More precisely, this phenomenon will be active on July 14 to August 24, 2021.
While the peak of the meteor shower will occur on August 11, 12 and 13, 2021.
For information, the speed of the Perseid meteor shower reaches 59 km per second.
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The Perseid meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through a cloud of dust particles and debris from a comet known as 109P/Swift-Tuttle.
Quoted from cbsnews, The comet was discovered in 1862 by Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle. It orbits the sun once every 133 years, last passing through the inner solar system in 1992.
When particles from comets hit the atmosphere at speeds of up to 140,000 mph, they heat up and appear as streaks of light in the night sky.
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