Astronomy Issues of Interest (most recent first):
- Perseid Metor Shower -- The Perseid metor shower peaks in the morning hours on August 13, 2010. Observers can expect to see more than 60, and perhaps 100, meteors per hour. About half as many will be visible the night before and after. The particles we see as meteors originated from Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. As Earth runs into the particle stream in its orbit every year, we view the bright, fast meteors as they hit Earth's atmosphere at 37 miles per second. For more information see "Perseid's Metors light up the Summer Sky", in Astronomy Magazine.
