One of the best meteor showers of the year is about to commence, as comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle sends debris at Earth. The Perseid meteor showers are the result of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, a 26-kilometer (16-mile) wide comet that takes 133 years to orbit the Sun. This “parent” comet, around twice the size of the rock which dinosaured the dinosaurs, is what showers …
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