Description:

Clip 2:47 ScienceCast: Summer Meteor Shower, look for August 11,12,13. If you're camping out and can't sleep, maybe your slumber is being interrupted by the flash of meteors. The summer Perseid meteor shower is getting underway as Earth enters the debris stream from comet Swift-Tuttle.

Tags:

atmosphers, August, comets, dust, educational, fire balls, full moon, fun, green, lights, meteoroids, meteors, moons, NASA, natural sciences, naturalistic, natures, orbits, perseids, sciences, scientific, showers, swift tuttle, yellow, zones

Length:

167 Seconds

Date Added:

July 2011