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Title: Look to the skies tonight: Annual Perseid meteor shower peaks
Post by: tiderman on August 12, 2009, 12:20:36 am

If you've visited google today you might have clicked the totallysuperawesome google logo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids)

(http://www.nationalpost.com/1882347.bin)


Weather-permitting, tonight and tomorrow night should offer a great chance
 to see some celestial activity as the annual Perseid meteor shower hits its peak.

The Perseid shower happens when the Earth passes through debris left from the
 Swift-Tuttle comet which last came this way in 1992.

You can follow meteor sightings on Twitter at #perseid or #meteorwatch. NASA
offers some advice for the best viewing. For aspiring amateur astronomers,
cnet.com lists some useful websites to help you get started.

-http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/08/11/look-to-the-skies-tonight-annual-meteor-shower-peaks.aspx (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/08/11/look-to-the-skies-tonight-annual-meteor-shower-peaks.aspx)

Title: Re: Look to the skies tonight: Annual Perseid meteor shower peaks
Post by: James_Alterlis on August 12, 2009, 12:41:22 am

w00t

National Mother Day in my country when meteor shower happen!  :hurray:

Title: Re: Look to the skies tonight: Annual Perseid meteor shower peaks
Post by: MikeUK on August 12, 2009, 01:21:17 am

It's not tonight for America.
It's tonight in the UK but not the night atm, the night in 21 hours time.

Title: Re: Look to the skies tonight: Annual Perseid meteor shower peaks
Post by: Wayne on August 12, 2009, 01:24:30 am

It's not tonight for brazil :X
i think it's only for north hemisphere

Title: Re: Look to the skies tonight: Annual Perseid meteor shower peaks
Post by: Miami on August 12, 2009, 01:54:34 am

I saw 3 shooting stars in last years Perseid shower :3