The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best shooting star displays of the year.
In 2023, the Perseids put on a good display as the moon provided minimal disturbance to theA typical Perseid meteoroid moves at 133,200 mph when it hits
. Most of the Perseids are tiny, about the size of a sand grain. Almost none of the fragments hit the ground, but if one does, it's called a meteorite.as each fragment travels through the atmosphere and both compresses and heats the air in front of it. Most of the fragments are visible when they are about 60 miles from the ground. The Perseid meteor shower is caused by the comet Swift-Tuttle.
Swift-Tuttle was discovered independently by two astronomers, Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle, in 1862. When it last made a pass by Earth in 1992, it was too faint to be seen with the naked eye. The next pass, in 2126, could make it a naked-eye comet similar in brightness to theComet Swift-Tuttle is the largest object known to repeatedly pass by
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