Perseid meteor shower 2011 begins Friday night

Just go outside before dawn. If you lucky enough, the 2011′s Perseid meteor shower will let you see the sky falling.
Each year at this time, the Earth infiltrates the orbit of a comet called Swift-Tuttle, and the outcome is a meteor shower — meteors, up to 50 or 60 per hour — streaking over the night sky as dust from the comet enters the earth’s atmosphere and flames up.
Even though the comet is far-off now, in an oval orbit that lands it close to the sun just once every

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