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Perseid Fireballs Captured By NASA All-Sky Fireball Network – The Show isn’t Over Yet (Videos)
Perseid Fireballs Captured By NASA All-Sky Fireball Network
The show isn’t over yet. Earth is still inside a stream of debris from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, the source of the Perseids.
Rates will probably decrease on the night of August 13-14, but not to zero.
No matter where you live, the best time to look is during the dark hours before sunrise on Friday. http://spaceweather.com/
The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked on Aug. 12 and 13, 2015, filling the sky with streaks of light caused by the meteoroids burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. Big meteor showers like the Perseids, are caused when Earth travels through a region of space filled with debris shed by a comet. The Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years and are the small fragments from comet Swift-Tuttle. These bits of ice and dust wander in space for centuries, finally burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere to create one of the best meteor showers of the year. (NASA/MSFC/ MEO)
http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/
