{"id":1630,"date":"2009-08-11T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/08\/perseid-meteor-shower-at-its-p.html"},"modified":"2009-08-11T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T19:23:21","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-at-its-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/08\/perseid-meteor-shower-at-its-p.html","title":{"rendered":"Perseid meteor shower at its peak!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual summer show of falling stars will peak tomorrow afternoon when it will be invisible, so tonight might be our best opportunity to catch the show. &nbsp;<embed pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" src=\"http:\/\/video.nationalgeographic.com\/video\/player\/flash\/syndicatedVideoPlayer.swf?vid=perseid-animation-embed-video\" width=\"480\" height=\"394\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The meteor shower will be somewhat difficult to see when it peaks after midnight because the Moon is still quite bright in the sky; astronomers suggest watching between 9 and 11 pm your local time.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Records observing the Perseid meteor shower date back 2000 years to ancient Chinese records of meteoric phenomenon (according to the book <b>Meteors<\/b>&nbsp;by Charles Olivier. &nbsp;The Perseid shower was also known as the &#8220;tears of Saint Lawrence&#8221; because they occurred on the anniversary of the martyrdom of that saint. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">Spaceweather <\/a>reports that at 8:00 UT (4 am EDT) on August 12 the Earth will pass through a denser-than-usual filament of dust from the shower&#8217;s parent Comet Swift-Tuttle, and for an hour or so the rate of showers could surge to 200 per hour. &nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual summer show of falling stars will peak tomorrow afternoon when it will be invisible, so tonight might be our best opportunity to catch the show. &nbsp;&nbsp; The meteor shower will be somewhat difficult to see when it peaks after midnight because the Moon is still quite bright in the sky; astronomers suggest watching&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Perseid meteor shower at its peak! 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