Sunday Night '90 Meteors Per Hour' Shower

National Gwacheon Science Museum, Live Broadcast from 10 PM on the 13th to 4 AM on the 14th

On the night to early morning of the 13th, one of the three major meteor showers, the Perseids, can be observed.

▲Following 2009, the Perseus meteor shower will peak again this August.
[Photo by NASA]

The Gwacheon National Science Museum announced on the 9th that it will live stream the Perseid meteor shower online through its own YouTube channel from 10 PM on the 13th until 2 AM the next day.

A meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through debris left in its orbit by comets or asteroids, causing an increased number of meteors to fall than usual. The Perseid meteor shower happens as Earth passes through debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet. This comet was discovered in 1862 by Lewis A. Swift and Horace P. Tuttle. It approaches Earth once every 133 years, with its most recent visit in 1992. The next is expected in 2126.

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the three major annual meteor showers, along with the Quadrantids in January (in the constellation Draco) and the Geminids in December. According to the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, the peak time for this year’s Perseids is 4:29 PM on August 13. Since this is during the daytime, it is expected that up to 90 meteors per hour can be seen from the evening of the same day until the early morning of the next day. Especially this year, the moon will be near its new phase, minimizing moonlight interference and making it an optimal time for observation.

For scientific observation, a joint broadcast will be conducted from the National Observatory at the Geographic Center of Korea (located in Yanggu-gun, Gangwon-do), one of the best observation sites in the country, to show more meteors. The principles of meteor shower occurrence and observation methods will be explained. Videos of the meteor shower observed from other locations will also be remotely broadcast. In the early morning of the 14th, along with the meteor shower, footage of the summer Milky Way and the two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will also be aired.

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