If you are a sky-watching enthusiast like me then you’re not gonna desire to miss present year’s Perseid meteor shower. Astronomers are forecasting that, at its peak on August 11-12, we will find to see twice as many meteors that normal, about 200 meteors an hour. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office said in a report:
“Forecasters are predict a Perseid outburst this year with dual normal rates on the night of August 11-12. Under great conditions, rates could soar to 200 meteors per hour.”For better perspective, in a usual year, we typically only get 80 meteors per hour during the Perseids. And this year we will witness at least 200 meteors per hour.
The Perseids Meteor shower occurs when Earth’s orbit gets us into the trail of Comet Swift-Tuttle, and typically we only create it into the very boundaries the debris track it sheds as it passes through space.
But present month it’s going to be dissimilar, as Eric Mack explains on CNet:
"[T]his could be the rare year where Jupiter's gravity tugs that stream a little closer, allowing our planet to plow right through the center of it, where there's more junk and we see extra meteors as a result."
Earth is previously in the path of Comet Swift-Tuttle, and is projected to continue shadowing it until August 24. And its peak is between August 11 and 12. So you get your calendars clear.
If you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, the meteors should initiate in the sky from the Perseus constellation, which appear on the horizon at about 10pm ET (7pm PT). For the top explain it is optional that you try to stay up until after midnight.
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