Please be patient. You'll see many more meteors in the morning before sunrise than you will right after sunset. What to Look For A meteor is a brief streak of light in the sky. Mostly they last for only a second or two. Meteors are caused by pieces of space debris burning up in Earth's atmosphere as they travel at thousands of miles per hour.
Comets are hunks of ice mixed with dust and rock.
They travel around the sun in long orbits that take them to the outer edges of our solar system and then back near the sun where Earth is located. As they get near the sun, the sun's heat and energy evaporate part of their icy surface, leaving a long trail of dusty debris. On August 11, Earth passes through thickest part of the debris trail of Swift-Tuttle, and many meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere. How Many Nobody knows, since we can't predict the number of meteoroids in the part of the debris cloud we'll be passing through. The absence of the moon from the sky on the peak nights should help us to see more meteors than last year.