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With the coming of August, we have a greater chance of seeing meteors than at most other times of the year.
The very famous Perseid Meteor Shower, so-called because these meteors appear to radiate from the area of the constellation Perseus in the north eastern sky, reaches its peak on August 12, although I have seen some of these meteors as early as June.
Perseid meteors are tiny dust piarticles left in a huge elliptical stream in the inner solar system from Comet Swift-Tuttle, a comet of 130-year period, that last appeared in 1862 and in 1992.
Special excitement this year is about possibly seeing increased activity from the layer of dust cast off when the comet was near the sun in 1862.
Perseids are very fast, traveling at 60 kilometers per second before being “burned up” in the atmosphere.
Some meteors are likely to be seen on any night in August, but I suggest that people make definite plans to observe them on the nights of August 11 and 12. Fortunately this year, moonlight will not interfere at all for most of the night.
Although some meteors may be seen beginning at about 10:00 p.m., I strongly recommend observing all night, right up to morning twilight.
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