Persied Meteor Shower August 2010 |
The antecedent of the Perseids is Comet Swift-Tuttle. Although the comet is far away, currently amid above the apogee of Uranus, a appendage of bits from the comet stretches all the way aback to Earth. It crosses the alley in August, Earth is acquired by particles of comet dust hitting the atmosphere at 132.000 mph. At that speed, alike a anemic atom of dust makes a active band of ablaze aback it disintegrates - a meteor! Because the meteors of comet Swift-Tuttle band afterlife Perseus, they are alleged "Perseids."
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