Each year the Perseid Meteor Shower rains over the Northern Hemisphere. This year, it happened to occur on a new moon, which proved great viewing. We went out to Shadow Mountain for the event.The meteors can be as large as a pea or as small as a grain of sand. As the meteors enter Earth's atmosphere it compresses the air in front, which heats up. The meteors vaporize and light up creating a shooting star.
The meteors were created by a comet called Swift-Tuttle. The comet itself is 6 miles in diameter, similar in size to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. Last seen in 1992, Swift-Tuttle is the largest comet to repeatedly pass by earth.
We observed about 2-3 shooting stars a minute. Good times had by good people, and we had an awesome view of the Tetons to boot. Hopefully you got out and enjoyed it as much as we did.
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