Esthetically and astronomically, the night was ideal,” a reporter wrote of a Perseid meteor watch in 1968 a period when the Moon’s phase was as this August’s was, and its brightness tempered the dark ...

The Perseid meteor shower is active from July 17 until August 24 the Royal Observatory confirms, but the quantity of meteors ...

Any meteors you do see at that time are going to be called Earth grazers,” said Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor ...