Summer Meteor Shower
July 22, 2011
If you’re camping out and can’t sleep, maybe your slumber is being interrupted by the flash of meteors. The summer Perseid meteor shower is getting underway as Earth enters the debris stream from comet Swift-Tuttle. credit: NASA
Topics:
Environment, Planetary science, Astronomy, Meteor showers, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Radiant, Leonids, 8P/Tuttle, Comet, 109P/Swift-Tuttle, Meteoroid, Time, Perseids