The following weekend you can enjoy one of the most intense meteor shower in recent years. Early mornings from 11 to 13 August the Perseids or “Lagrimas de San Lorenzo” light up the sky around the world.
Ques are shooting stars? are tiny dust particles of different sizes that produce comets or asteroids that are leaving along their orbits around the sun.
This ” luminous path “is known as meteoroids , and is the result of snowmelt produced by solar heat. To disperse the cloud of particles is crossed every year. for our planet.
As our planet through the “luminous path” dust particles disintegrate when entering at high speed in the Earth’s atmosphere , creating known luminous strokes that are the scientific name of meteors. For perspective effect, all trajectories of different fleeting stars converge on a point in the sky called the radiant.
The Perseids
dust particles that give rise to this phenomenon come from comet SwiftTuttle , discovered in 1862. they are mainly known for their “ bursts of activity ” caused by the gravitational influence of the giants of the solar system Jupiter and Saturn, on the clouds of meteoroids dust created by the comet in the past.
the last pop on record occurred in 2009 , which were counted, according to official reports, 250 meteors per hour., but the Russian astronomer Mikhail Maslov told international media that this weekend could see an increase in activity of the Perseids “the disruption caused by Jupiter cause high increased activity Perseid this year. The previous increase was in 2004, also caused by the Giant “.
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