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Perseid Meteor Shower To Peak This Weekend

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-out-and-watch-the-sights dept.

Krishna Dagli writes "This weekend provides one of the year's best opportunities to see some "shooting stars". The annual Perseid meteor display is expected to peak on Friday and Saturday night. Meteors are bits of dust or rock that plunge into the Earth's atmosphere and burn up, making bright streaks in the sky. It does not take a large object to produce a visible meteor — most are the size of a grain of sand or a small pebble."

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  1. They're not really meteors by WilliamSChips · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're the aliens, trying to establish contact but getting attacked by the USAF.

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  2. Late Late Late by iced_773 · · Score: 5, Funny
    is expected to peak on Friday and Saturday night.

    Shoot, I missed most of it.
    1. Re:Late Late Late by snafu109 · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news, Halley's Comet is expected to pass by Earth sometime in 1986. It should be quite a sight!

  3. Re:Erm.. by gadzook33 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think we really needed the 3rd grade scienst lesson.

    but a spelling one would be nice.

  4. I sense... by wwiiol_toofless · · Score: 4, Funny

    A great disturbance in the Force. It was like a million voices crying out in unison, then suddenly silenced as millions of Dads finally attempted to use their $600 Costco telescopes, only to realize they had thrown out their manuals with the box...

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  5. Too late by FlyByPC · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...looks like the posting's HTML got holed by one of the Perseids -- one of the tags got taken clean out!

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  6. As slashdot says... by MattS423 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Well, you should have used the preview button!"

  7. Re:Not merely 3rd grade science... by langelgjm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll let somebody else point out that the orbit is 133 years, not 150.

    The orbit is 133 years, not 150.

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