The Perseid meteor shower happens every year around mid-August.
This year's peak nights will be during the early morning hours
of August 12th and 13th. During the shower you'll be able to see
up to 60 meteors per hour. What is a meteor shower? A meteor is
a tiny dust particle that a comet sheds. These dust particles
remain along the orbit of the comet for many years. When the
Earth comes close to - or plows through - the comet dust debris,
dust particles fall into the Earth's atmosphere and burn up
completely. We see the break up of the dust particles in streaks
of light that we call meteors, which are also commonly referred
to as "shooting stars" -- although this term is technically
inaccurate. Comet dust particles are typically smaller than the
size of a pea and burn up in the Earth's atmosphere about 70 km
above the surface. Why is the meteor shower called Perseid? If
you watch the meteor streaks carefully, it appears as though you
could trace them back to a point in the sky where they
originate. In realit