Perseids meteor shower 2023: everything you need to know about the best and most popular meteor shower of the year, which peaks in the early hours of August 13, 2023.
The Perseids roughly coincides with the feast day of St. Lawrence, a Catholic deacon in Rome in the third century A.D. who was murdered by the Roman authorities. In medieval Europe, the annual meteor display thus became known as the “Tears of St. Lawrence,” according toThe radiant point of each “shooting star” is the constellation of Perseus. It’s precisely at this region of the night sky that meteors appear to strike Earth’s atmosphere.
As it gets close to the sun it melts a little, shedding material that could one day rain down on Earth as “shooting stars”—though only if the comet’s path crosses Earth’s annual orbital path around the sun. Since 109P/Swift–Tuttle’s path is close to Earth’s, its material is grabbed by our planet’s gravitational field.
The link between the frequently observed meteor shower and 109P/Swift–Tuttle wasn’t made until 1862 by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli.
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