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Perseid Meteor Shower 2024
August 24 , 2024
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- The Perseids, one of the year's most prolific meteor showers, are raining dozens of "shooting stars".
- The Perseid meteor shower is active from July 17 to August 24, it was peak on the night of August 12, before dawn on August 13th.
- Under ideal conditions, 50 to 100 meteors can be seen per hour.
- So-called shooting stars are not really stars but tiny bits of rock plunging through Earth's atmosphere at more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h).
- The only satellite ever destroyed was the Olympus communications satellite during a Perseid outburst in 1993.
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