THE Perseid meteor shower is set to peak this evening, meaning you could see dozens of bright fireballs every hour. The celestial event happens every August when Earth crosses paths with debris lef…
THE Perseid meteor shower is set to peak this evening, meaning you could see dozens of bright fireballs every hour.
The celestial event happens every August when Earth crosses paths with debris left behind from Comet Swift-Tuttle.In 2020, the peak is happening around August 11, 12 and 13.To see them at their brightest though, look in the late evening tonight and into the early hours of the morning on August 13.
The Moon shouldn't be too bright at this time of the month so that will work in the favour of stargazers.You'll need to be in a dark area like the bottom of a garden and try to avoid light pollution. Anna Ross, a Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer, told the PA: “During the peak night of the shower, you will be able to find it in the north-east of the sky, getting higher throughout the night."Once you've used your phone you'll need to give your eyes some time to adjust to the dark again.They burn up in our atmosphere and almost none of them hit the ground.What's the difference between an asteroid, meteor and comet?An asteroid is a small rocky body that orbits the Sun.
If a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it begins to vapourise and then becomes a meteor. On Earth, it'll look like a streak of light in the sky, because the rock is burning upIf a meteoroid doesn't vapourise completely and survives the trip through Earth's atmosphere, it can land on the Earth. At that point, it becomes a meteoriteLike asteroids, a comet orbits the Sun.
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