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General Category => Greater Reno Tahoe Area => Topic started by: AngelOfThyNight on August 15, 2016, 07:56:12 PM
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Meteor shower tonight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The heavens will be bursting with shooting stars this week.Tonight into early Friday, the annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak with double the normal number of meteors. Scientists call this an outburst, and they say it could reach up to 200 meteors per hour.Prime viewing should be in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, after the moon sets.The last Perseids outburst was in 2009. Thanks to a gravity nudge from Jupiter, debris from comet Swift-Tuttle could stray closer to Earth again. These scattered specks of dust — a trail in the comet’s wake — are …
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