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"Just
what do you think you're doing, Dave?" What ARE meteor showers?? An increase in the number of meteors at a particular time of year is called a Meteor Shower!!
Comets shed the debris that becomes most meteor showers. As comets orbit the Sun, they shed an icy, dusty debris stream
along the comet's orbit. If Earth travels through this stream, we will see a meteor shower. Depending on where Earth and the
stream meet, meteors appear to fall from a particular place in the sky, maybe within the neighborhood of a constellation.
Meteor showers are named by the constellation from which meteors appear to fall, a spot in the sky astronomers call
the radiant. For instance, the radiant for the Leonid meteor shower is located in the constellation Leo. The Perseid meteor
shower is so named because meteors appear to fall from a point in the constellation Perseus.
THIS MONTH'S FULL MOON INFO
NEW
MOON THE 11TH FULL
MOON THE 26TH
TWO
FULL MOONS IN ONE MONTH IS A BLUE MOON MONTH!!!
ALWAYS REMEMBER: THE FIRST
STARS YOU SEE AT NIGHT ARE NOT STARS AT ALL, THEY ARE PLANETS! COOL, HUH? OR SHOULD I SAY, NARLEY! (IS that how narley is spelled?)
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