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Look to the skies tonight: Annual Perseid meteor shower peaks

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

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




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



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Reply #1 on: August 12, 2009, 12:41:22 am
w00t

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

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Reply #2 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.



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Reply #3 on: August 12, 2009, 01:24:30 am
It's not tonight for brazil :X
i think it's only for north hemisphere



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Reply #4 on: August 12, 2009, 01:54:34 am
I saw 3 shooting stars in last years Perseid shower :3



 


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