MEXICO: The night sky will be strewn with ‘shooting stars’ next week as the annual Perseid meteor shower which takes place.
The meteors are created as space debris from the tail of the Swift-Tuttle comet as it strikes the Earth’s atmosphere, creating up to 100 meteors every hour during their peak.
This year’s Perseid meteor shower will be most visible on August 11, 12, 13 and 14.
Earth Sky website states: “On a dark, moonless night, you can often see 50 or more meteors per hour from northerly latitudes, and from southerly latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, perhaps about one-third that many meteors.
“Fortunately, in 2015, the waning crescent moon comes up shortly before sunrise, so you’re guaranteed of dark skies for this year’s Perseid meteor shower.”
The Perseids are named after the constellation, Perseus, due to the direction in which the shower appears to stem from. The meteor shower falls from and is in line with Perseus in the north-eastern point of the sky.
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