WELL, MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR HAD COME! THE PERSIED METEOR SHOWER! IT WAS WAY COOL. HOPEFULLY SOME OF YOU GOT TO SEE IT. I KNOW I ENJOYED IT. FROM THE ARTICLE I UNDERSTAND YOU CAN SEE IT STILL FOR A FEW MORE DAYS...SO EVERYONE LOOK EAST AND LOOK UP! ENJOY THE WONDERS OF NATURE !!!!!


"Throughout the night, fiery streaks of light will zoom across the sky as the annual Perseids Meteor Shower presents what is usually the most watched meteor display of the year," said Patrick Wiggins, NASA Solar System Ambassador to Utah.
The National Weather Service forecasts mostly clear skies.
Under a moonless, dark sky, observers away from city light pollution are able to see one or two meteors per minute. This year, there will be no moon, making meteors even more visible.
Some Perseid meteors may also be seen in the next few nights and mornings. But astronomers predict tomorrow's predawn hours will probably be the best time for Utahns to look since that's when Earth will be nearly centered in and directly facing the oncoming meteoroid swarm.
The shower derives its name because they appear to burst from the constellation Perseus.
Telescopes and binoculars should not be used for viewing this or any meteor shower since they severely restrict how much of the sky the observer can see.
"A lawn chair, the naked eye, and maybe a few snacks, are the best things for viewing meteor showers," Wiggins said.
Most meteors are actually tiny bits of rock, many no larger than a grain of sand, that burn up do to air friction when they strike Earth's extreme upper atmosphere. The resultant meteor ash then drifts harmlessly and invisibly to Earth.
Wiggins notes that the Perseids are among the fastest meteors known, "tearing into our atmosphere at some 60 kilometers per second". At that rate a driver on I-15 could cover the distance from Salt Lake to St. George in about 8 seconds.
Most meteor shower particles are thought to be debris left behind by comets. The Perseids' parent comet, Swift/Tuttle, was last closest to the Earth in the early 1990s and will not return until 2126.