Doomsday101
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Ready to catch a shooting star this summer?
One of the best opportunities for sky watching and time-lapse photography is right around the corner. The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12-13 above North American skies, and forecasters are expecting a lively show - about 80 meteors per hour during peak display!
The Perseids appear to come from the constellation Perseus, but are actually bits of debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet, which has been orbiting the sun for centuries. The Earth passes through these streams of shooting stars every August.
http://ireport.cnn.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=479502&hpt=T2
One of the best opportunities for sky watching and time-lapse photography is right around the corner. The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12-13 above North American skies, and forecasters are expecting a lively show - about 80 meteors per hour during peak display!
The Perseids appear to come from the constellation Perseus, but are actually bits of debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet, which has been orbiting the sun for centuries. The Earth passes through these streams of shooting stars every August.
http://ireport.cnn.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=479502&hpt=T2