Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks August 12-13 19
The Perseids have been active in our skies for a couple of weeks already, but the peak of the meteor shower is coming up in just a few days. Overnight at the end of August 12th and the beginning of August 13th, observers in clear and dark conditions can expect to see up to 100 meteors per hour. The meteor shower should be particularly good this year because it occurs just a day before the new moon, so the sky should be even darker than usual. Forbes has an article on how astronomers figured out where such meteor showers were coming from:
In 1833, the regular Leonid meteor shower became spectacular, with 1000 meteors per hour creating a meteor storm. For the next 32 years, the Leonids were normal and quiet again, but in 1866, another storm appeared. John Couch Adams, the British astronomer who failed to find Neptune, correctly surmised where meteor showers came from, a picture that's been spectacularly confirmed for all known meteor showers, including this week's coming Perseids!
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You can see them in a city too, you just need more patience.
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Most of the stuff in meteor storms are sub-millimeter in size, which things like ISS and satellites can survive, at least mechanically, being hit. If you look around, there are already pop-sci articles discussing this and other issues that the showers can have, e.g. one at NatGeo [nationalgeographic.com]. For more technically and dry coverage, look for something discussing longevity of solar panels in space, where damage from micrometeorites is an on going deterioration process. Also space is big, and even if you paint a 100 m s