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Sky spirits // Perseid meteor shower
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“She’s so hot that when she holds my heart, it’s like a meteor.. her atmosphere tears me apart.”
And just like a meteor, I fall and fall and fall through time and space until she burns me up - eUë
A long, bright Perseid meteor fireball captured last night at 14mm.
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Where are all these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the straight answer is the constellation of Perseus- which is why the meteor shower that peaks tomorrow night is known as the Perseids. In other terms though, the Perseids meteors come from Comet Swift-Tuttle. The comet follows a well-defined orbit around our Sun, and the part of the orbit that approaches Earth passes in front of the Perseus constellation. Therefore, when Earth crosses this orbit, the radiant point of falling debris appears in Perseus.
Featured here, a composite image taken over eight nights and containing over 400 meteors from 2018 August’s Perseids meteor shower shows many bright meteors that streaked over Kolonica Observatory in Slovakia. This year’s Perseids holds promise to be one of the best meteor showers of the year. Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower on August 13, 2015 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.
Source: NASA’s Instagram
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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Zen Meteor
Sniper Rifle
(I forgot to mention that is currently a PS4 exclusive weapon)
Special info: This exotic Sniper is very cool. It has a built in perk called ‘Dynamite’ which offers:
Grants explosive rounds. Rapid kills with every round in the clip load an extra, higher-damage round for 5 seconds.
The final perk on the upgrade tree is called ‘With a laser beam’ which then gives you:
The extra round from Dynamite causes a massive explosion.
A lot of fire and explosions can be had with this beauty.
Guaranteed to blow your mind…
More information on this gun
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There are always a lot of doomsday predictions about asteroids. NASA has us covered on this front, but paranoid internet bloggers might argue otherwise. The latest scuttlebutt has us all perishing in September. Regardless, there are a lot of near-earth objects. This graph of NASA’s database on NEOs between 1900 and 2200 shows that these visiting asteroids (and comets, but those don’t have a defined absolute magnitude, so they aren’t graphed) are actually pretty common, and many come even closer than the distance between Earth and the Moon.
Note there is some observational bias in these data; we know much more about the ones that are due to approach now-ish, or approached recently, and we can track much smaller objects that are near approach with higher certainty. So the shape of the trend is less significant than just the sheer volume. This database has more than 21k just out to a range of 30 lunar distances!
Data source: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/neo_ca
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