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Try to spot a rare Aurigid meteor as the shower peaks overnight on Aug. 31

Try to spot a rare Aurigid meteor as the shower peaks overnight on Aug. 31

Why not try your luck in late August and try to spot a rare Aurigid shooting star as the shower comes to a peak later this weekend? The Aurigid meteor shower takes place each year as Earth travels through the tenuous debris trail shed by the long-period comet C/1911 N1 Kiess, which is thought to have last travelled through the …

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