The 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower


	The 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower

tabsey

7-23-2008 7:01 AM

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i'll, just, stay, up

tabsey says:

Set the alarms for an early morning. More at the site regarding times etc.

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7-23-2008 4:40 PM

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                    your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 
                    12th and it should be a good show.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/22jul_perseiddawn.htm"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><A href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/images/perseiddawn/Joe-Westerberg1.jpg"><IMG width="270" hspace="10" height="257" border="1" align="right" alt="see caption" src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/images/perseiddawn/westerberg1_med.jpg" /></A>"The 
                    time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday, 
                    August 12th," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment 
                    Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "There should 
                    be plenty of meteors--perhaps one or two every minute."</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/22jul_perseiddawn.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/science.nasa.gov/img/E72A398B-119C-49F7-80D9-A46A5D034474" alt="see caption" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/22jul_perseiddawn.htm"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Right:</STRONG> 
                    A Perseid meteor over Joshua Tree National Park in California, 
                    August 11, 2007. Credit: Joe Westerberg. [<A href="http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/gallery_12aug07_page3.htm">more</A>]</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/22jul_perseiddawn.htm"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The 
                    source of the shower is Comet Swift-Tuttle. Although the comet 
                    is far away, currently located beyond the orbit of Uranus, 
                    a trail of debris from the comet stretches all the way back 
                    to Earth. Crossing the trail in August, Earth will be pelted 
                    by specks of comet dust hitting the atmosphere at 132,000 
                    mph. At that speed, even a flimsy speck of dust makes a vivid 
                    streak of light when it disintegrates--a meteor! Because, 
                    Swift-Tuttle's meteors streak out of the constellation Perseus, 
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