It is larger than six miles across and is one of the largest objects that passes by Earth, but don’t worry it won’t be close again until the year 2126, however the debris from its passing still creates this great meteor shower consistently each August.

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Before a Perseids Meteor enters the Earth’s atmosphere it is called a meteoroid. These meteoroids enter our atmosphere at ridiculously fast speeds as high as 133,000 mile per hour.

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The Perseids Meteor Shower consists of meteors as small as a grain to softball size fireballs. The Perseids Meteor Shower is known as being the strongest summer meteor shower of the year for residents in the northern hemisphere. It is not known for great fireballs like other meteor showers.

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The source is dust trails from the Swift-Tuttle Comet. The Swift-Tuttle Comet was discovered by Lewis Swift and Horace Parnell Tuttle in July of 1862. The comet passed by Earth in 1992 and will not return again until 2126, however the dust that follows this comet creates a reliable annual meteor shower, the Perseids.

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Q: How do you pronounce Perseids?

A: Purr-See-Idds

The Perseids Meteor Shower will be peaking August 12, 2009.

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