Perseid Meteor
This Perseid fireball meteor was observed in the skies over Chickamauga, Ga.,
on Aug. 11, 2013, at 2:14:49 a.m. EDT. It was also recorded by four other
cameras in the NASA All Sky Fireball Network.
The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks on Aug.11 and 12, 2013, filling the
sky with streaks of light. The big meteor showers like the Perseids, and later
the Leonids in November, are caused when Earth and its atmosphere travels
through a region of the sky filled with left over debris lost by a particular
comet. In the case of the Perseids, the small fragments were ripped off the tail
of comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 130 years.
Image Credit: NASA/MSFC/MEO
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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