As always by these dates, the rain of shooting stars Perseids of 2014 It is already illuminating the sky almost every night although the greatest activity will occur on the nights of August 11, 12 and 13, 2014 with peaks of 100 meteors per hour. It is the remains of Swift-Tuttle kite It produces flashes from mid-July to the third week of August. The meteorites of the perseids can be found in the direction of the constellation Perseus.
As we always say, no specific instruments or machinery are necessary to see the rain of stars. The best thing is a blanket to ensure that when the cold of the night comes the kids can protect themselves and stay warm. The problem this year is that we have a full moon that also remains very high and well visible, illuminating the night especially in places without light pollution. In any case the magnitude of the meteors is high so some will look safe.
The technical issue of Lost is that the Earth, on its way around the Sun, crosses at this time an area full of dust and debris that were thrown into space by the Swift-Tuttle kite. When one of those bodies constituted by ice and rocky material it is trapped by the gravitational field of the Earth, it gets into the Earth's atmosphere and rushes towards the surface. Although the air friction it causes many of these rubble to be completely calcined and not to land anywhere. Is that calcination process what makes them shine for a brief moment creating a shooting star to ask, if you like to do it, a wish!
The full moon has been on August 10, 2014 and is called Super moon for being exactly at the point of its orbit closest to Earth, the perigee, with an apparent size 16% larger than usual and a brightness 30% higher.
We wish you a few nights full of shooting stars in which the best wishes you can imagine are fulfilled.
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