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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. Um... by Kawahee · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "This weekend provides one of the year's a href="http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns? id=dn9732&feedId=space_rss20">best opportunities to see some "shooting stars". The annual Perseid meteor display is expected to peak on Friday and Saturday night. ..."

    Aren't slashdot editor's meant to be able to understand HTML? Another prime example for my signature:

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  2. Re:A new low in editing by lullabud · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Editors? This is Slashdot. We don't need no stinking editors. Obviously.