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Get Ready for the Perseid Meteor Shower Tonight

POSTED BY: Jeffrey Bryant
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Posted 10 years ago

I saw 17 of them in half an hour, 5 bright ones

POSTED BY: Olaf Baeyens

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POSTED BY: EDITORIAL BOARD

Thanks for sharing Jeff! Quite amazing that all this info is available!

POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

Thanks for the informative post, Jeff!!

I'm always amazed when I see 3-D visualizations of the solar system. Everyday occurrences just make so much more sense.....

POSTED BY: Rob Morris

BTW, I should add that this meteor shower typically produces about 100 meteors per hour:

In[5]:= Entity["MeteorShower", "Perseids"]["PeakZHR"]

Out[5]= Quantity[1.0*10^2, 1/("Hours")]

Although some predictions are claiming that this years shower could be double that. Predicting meteor shower performance is more art than science and can vary from one location to the next given that there can be narrow bursts that favor one location and not another.

POSTED BY: Jeffrey Bryant
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