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Facts of Meteor Showers


The meteors showers are caused by streams of great dust termed as meteoroids getting entries into the atmosphere at enormously high speed on parallel paths. Majority of the meteors are really minute most times lesser than grains of sand, which strings to them dispersing and keeping them from blasting the surfaces of the earth.
A Meteor shower is a providential effect in which a number of meteors are seen to unfold from place to place in the night sky. The meteor shower is the result of an interaction between a planet, like Earth, and pelts of debris from a comet.
All The Same, comets can make dusts by steam then water vapour sweep, as spotlighted by Fred Whipple in the year 1951, and by the breakup. Here, Whipple described the comets as “dirty snowballs,” made up of rock embedded in ice, moving around the Sun.
The most eye-catching meteor shower in most years is the Perseids, which peaks on August 12 of each year at over 1 meteor a minute while the most amazing meteors showers is probably the Leonids, called the King of Meteor showers which peak around 17 of November.
The Leonids arrives with a storm in every 33 years stimulating a meteor storm! The Perseids is believably happening NOW while you are reading this article or has just happened!

08-13-2010 12:11 PM
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