Perseid meteors set to dazzle

[DRMIZER]

One of the year's most impressive meteor showers is firing up as the Earth swings through a trail of debris left by a comet.
The Perseids will peak on the night of 12 August, streaking through the dark skies of a New Moon. At its peak, the shower is expected to produce one or two meteors per minute, according to Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville,


http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12396?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn12396

[steveksux]

One of the year's most impressive meteor showers is firing up as the Earth swings through a trail of debris left by a comet.
The Perseids will peak on the night of 12 August, streaking through the dark skies of a New Moon. At its peak, the shower is expected to produce one or two meteors per minute, according to Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville,


http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12396?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn12396Don't we swing through these in November as well? I seem to remember these being later in the year. Maybe I'm thinking of another meteor shower.

Randy

[bowerbird]

I think you might be thinking of the Leonid shower. There are a few of them - left over comet trails.

Sadly this will mostly be a Nothern Hemisphere phenomena:(

[DRMIZER]

Don't we swing through these in November as well? I seem to remember these being later in the year. Maybe I'm thinking of another meteor shower.

RandySorry, I can't answer. I picked this up somewhere. I think PowerBird may be correct.

[dittohead not!]

If all goes well, I'll be in the High Sierra that night. I'm looking forward to a light show.