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In 1862, the America astronomers Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle "discovered" what is now called the Swift-Tuttle comet; it was also known as "the Great Comet of 1862."
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Tonight is the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, which is the roughly annual result of the earth passing through trailing debris from the Comet Swift-Tuttle.
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The Perseid meteors appear in August every year, when the Earth moves through the trail of the Swift-Tuttle comet, which last passed close to the sun in 1992.
Perseid meteor shower set for shooting stars show over UK skies 2010
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Tonight is the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, which is the roughly annual result of the earth passing through trailing debris from the Comet Swift-Tuttle.
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Mr. Marsden refined the way comet orbits were calculated, and he succeed in predicting the return in 1992 of Swift-Tuttle, the comet with the longest known orbital period.
Astronomer Recast the Solar System Stephen Miller 2010
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Space. com reports that the annual Perseid meteor shower is a glimpse of ancient debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle, left behind after multiple orbits around the sun.
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Over the next two years, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli correlated the orbit of the Perseid meteors with that of the Swift-Tuttle comet.
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As the Earth crosses the debris trail of Swift-Tuttle, tiny fragments of metal and stone hit our atmosphere of speeds of 132,000 mph and burn up in vivid streaks of light.
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Swift-Tuttle is the peripatetic frozen dirt ball that an astronomer last month declared has a 1-in-10,000 chance of hitting Earth on Aug. 14, 2126.
THE SCIENCE OF DOOM 2008
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In actuality, the meteors are born of the Swift-Tuttle comet, which passes through the inner solar system every 130 years or so (the last time in 1992), leaving a trail of grains of ice and rock in its wake.
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