As usual, astronomers are predicting more Perseid meteors than usual. Unusually, for a change, they may be right. According to Spaceweather.com: "A filament of…dust [from Comet Swift-Tuttle] has drifted across Earth’s path and when Earth passes through it, sometime between 0800 and 0900 UT (11 – 12 am CDT) on August 12th, the Perseid meteor rate could surge to twice its normal value…The [above] profile is based on…debris stream models…"
A useful reminder (for those of us who live under the urban halo) that we live on a planet, which is rotating about a thousand miles an hour (at the equator) while trucking five hundred forty million miles around Sol at about sixty-seven thousand miles an hour. And don’t forget that Sol is moving around the center of the Milky Way galaxy, while the galaxy itself is just one of many, widely-separated "islands" drifting through the black of intergalactic space.
Funny, I don’t notice any unusual motion. Do you?
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