00:04Every year our planet is treated to a couple of great meteor showers, and one of them is coming up.
00:09The Perseid meteor shower lasts from July 17th through August 24th as we glide through the tail of the Swift
00:15-Tuttle Comet.
00:16While you'll probably be able to spot a few meteors each night during that period, experts now predict that on
00:21August 13th the event will peak.
00:23It's called the Perseid meteor shower because all of the meteors tend to originate in the direction of the Perseus
00:28constellation.
00:29Experts say that near the apex of the shower, you can likely see upwards of 60 to 70 of them
00:34every hour.
00:35With science alert reporting that in 2016, the peak saw some 200 meteors an hour.
00:40And this year the shower also peaks while the moon is particularly dim.
00:44The Swift-Tuttle Comet is a 16-mile-wide solar system traveler, which passed by our planet last back in
00:491992.
00:50It won't be within eyesight of Earthlings again until 2126.
00:54However, it's still out there shedding debris in orbit around the sun.
00:57Meanwhile, we get to see its remnants every year.
01:01The Swift-Tuttle Comet
01:03The Swift-Tuttle Comet
01:04The Swift-Tuttle Comet
01:05The Swift-Tuttle Comet
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