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Meteor showers seen from the Grand Canyon make whitewater rafting even ... - Examiner Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:37 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Comment Subscribe Subscribe Stargazing in the Grand Canyon is well – grand! The complete absence of light (except for the moon at times) enables you to see meteor showers at their most glorious. When the last camper has gone to bed, and all is quiet, you are blanketed by a night sky bursting with stars -- stars so bright you want to reach out and touch them. The Grand Canyon is the perfect location to behold meteor showers. Small fragments of cosmic debris entering the earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds produce meteor showers. Each time a comet swings by the sun, it produces large amounts of small particles, which will eventually spread out along the entire orbit of the comet to form a meteoroid "stream." Depending on where the Earth's orbit and the comet's orbit intersect, meteors appear to fall from a particular place in the sky for a few days, maybe within the neighborhood of a constellation, thereby giving the meteor shower its name. Perseid meteors will appear to "rain" into the atmosphere from the constellation Perseus, which rises in the northeast around 10 p.m. in mid-August. At its peak, the shower could produce up to 100 meteors per hour. This year's shower should peak on the night of August 12 and the morning of the 13th. The thin, crescent moon will be out of the way early, setting the stage for a potentially spectacular show. (There is the possibility of seeing meteors any time from July 23 - August 22 as well). The radiant point for this shower will be in the constellation Perseus. For best viewing, look to the northeast after midnight. Arizona River Runners offers a number of rafting trips during this "peak meteor season." To see a meteor shower is awe-inspiring! And what better way to experience a meteor shower than camping out on the banks of the Colorado River on a rafting trip? Call them at 1-800-477-7238 for your adventure of a lifetime and indulge your love of the night sky! Arizona River Runners is one of the most innovative, progressive and well-respected outfitters operating in the Grand Canyon. Enjoy this article? Receive e-mail alerts when new Grand Canyon National Park articles are available. Just click on the "Subscribe" button above. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Perseid Meteor Shower 2009 - Webuser.co.uk Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:00 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Tomorrow sees the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, which will be clearest to UK stargazers just before dawn and from late evening on August 12, according to BBC News. The shower occurs when the Earth passes through debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle, with dozens of meteors potentially visible per hour, without the aid of telescope. Here's a preview of this amazing astronomical phenomenon, captured on August 9, 2009 by astrophotographer John Chumack. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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