ScienceCasts: A Good Year for Perseid Meteors
Channel: ScienceAtNASA
Date: 2015-08-11

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This week, Earth passes through a stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Forecasters say the show could be especially good this year because the Moon is nearly new when the shower peaks on Aug. 12-13.