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The Perseid meteor shower has begun. While the best viewing typically occurs after midnight when your location faces forward into the meteor stream, this year’s full moon is bright enough to interfere with visibility. To get around this, it's best to start watching at dusk, before the moon rises. The Perseids are tiny bits of ice from comet Swift Tuttle, disintegrating as they enter Earth's atmosphere. About one in 20 meteors, however, is a background meteor from the asteroid belt, which can survive their fiery descent. These "sturdy" meteors can even crash through roofs at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour. Despite the rarity of such impacts, insurance usually covers the damage.

This week we’ll see a Perseid meteor shower. But if clouds spoil the spectacle for you, there will be lingering meteors. This shower’s intensity falls off rapidly after peak, so later you might only see a meteor every 3 minutes after midnight. Tune in to hear about the reddish stars and what to check for the in the sky!

This week we’ll see the year’s best meteor shower! They are the Geminids, and they deliver a meteor a minute. Tune in to hear what the conditions will be like for those away from the city lights.

We’ll take a peek at what we can expect in the sky in 2023. Tune in to hear why 2023 is the decade’s finest year for meteors.

Tuesday night, December 13, we’ll see the year’s finest meteor shower. These are the Geminids, and they deliver a meteor a minute. And you start seeing them as early as 8 p.m. No need to wait for midnight like with those other rich showers. And the Moon will be absent, giving us perfect dark skies if you’re away from cities and artificial lights.

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