This week’s Perseid Meteor Shower is supposed to be one of the best in years, and NASA TV brings you a front row seat. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will broadcast a live program about this year’s Perseid meteor shower from 10 PM EDT Wednesday, Aug. 12 to 2 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. The event will highlight the science behind the Perseids, as well as NASA research related to meteors and comets. In case you don’t know, the Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years. Duh. (I had no idea…?) They are associated with the Swift-Tuttle comet, which orbits the sun once every 133 years. (I missed it last time.) Every August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet’s orbital debris. This debris field –mostly created hundreds of years ago– consists of bits of ice and dust shed from the comet which burn up in Earth’s atmosphere to create one of the premier meteor showers of the year.
Watch the NASA TV live stream on the 2015 Perseid meteor shower here. (Click pic above to enlarge.)
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