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Activity is already picking up; last night NASA's network of all-sky meteor cameras recorded 16 Perseid fireballs over the USA. A fireball is a very bright meteor, at least as bright as the planets Jupiter or Venus.
No other comet produces fireballs like 109P/Swift-Tuttle--probably a result of its oversized nucleus. The comet's core is 26 km in diameter, and naturally crumbles into fireball-sized chunks. Since 2008, NASA has counted more fireballs from the Perseids than any other shower:
I thought this interactive visualization of Swift-Tuttle was fun to adjust and play with.
You can put in a date of 8/1/2125 and see the comet pass close to Earth.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/2020 11:42PM by KatDawg.
