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    2009 Perseid Meteor Fireball NASA website on the Perseid shower of 2009 Sky & Telescope Magazine – Perseids at Their Prime 2012 Image of Perseids emanating...
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    250 million light-years from Earth. It hosts the radiant of the annual Perseids meteor shower—one of the most prominent meteor showers in the sky. In Greek...
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    Mycenae (redirect from Perseid dynasty)
    Heracleidae on their return to the Peloponnesus. They claimed the right of the Perseids to inherit the various kingdoms of the Peloponnese and cast lots for the...
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    Electryon to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus got the kingdom. However, the Perseids included the great hero, Heracles, stepson of Amphitryon, son of Alcaeus...
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    the leading shower. In most years, the most visible meteor shower is the Perseids, which peak on 12 August of each year at over one meteor per minute. NASA...
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    The Zeta Perseids (ζ–Perseids) are a daylight meteor shower that takes place from about May 20 to July 5. On the peak date of June 13, the radiant is only...
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  • The daytime showers are active from May to July (Beta Taurids and Zeta Perseids), while the nighttime showers are active from September to December. Typically...
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  • Greek: Γοργοφόνη) was queen of both Messenia and Sparta and a member of the Perseid dynasty. Her name means "Gorgon Slayer", a tribute to her father Perseus...
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    showers Lyrids Meteor air burst North American Meteor Network Orionids Perseids Tollmann's hypothetical bolide Baetyl – Sacred stones possibly originating...
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    from mid-July to mid-August, with the peak usually around July 28–29. The Perseids, a major meteor shower, typically takes place between July 17 and August...
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    distinguished; they contain the clan of the Achaemenids from which spring the Perseid kings. Other tribes are the Panthialaei, Derusiaei, Germanii, all of which...
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    Liverpool University Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-85323-595-3. "Capitains Nemo". cts.perseids.org. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020...
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    Alexander dedicated the temple to Athena Polias." "Capitains Nemo". cts.perseids.org. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020...
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  • can be as high as that of two other reliably rich meteor showers, the Perseids in August and the Geminids in December, yet Quadrantid meteors are not...
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    the Dark Age. It treats the mythic heroes such as the Heraclids and the Perseids, offering a view of the occupation of the Peloponnesus that contains both...
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    Brightest star α Cas (Schedar) (2.24m) Messier objects 2 Meteor showers Perseids Bordering constellations Camelopardalis Cepheus Lacerta Andromeda Perseus...
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    to Leonids. The Discovery of the Perseid Meteors (after the Leonids and) Prior to 1837, nobody realized the Perseids were an annual event, by Mark Littmann...
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    SDR receiver. Experiments proved the capability of this setup to analyze Perseids meteor shower using Graves radar signals. This project is being maintained...
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    first observed in 1862, much more recently than other showers such as the Perseids (36 AD) and Leonids (902 AD). Based on data from the Parker Solar Probe...
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  • Maxygen (redirect from Perseid Therapeutics)
    and Astellas called Perseid Therapeutics, in which Maxygen retained majority ownership. The intention was to work through Perseid to exploit most of Maxygen's...
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  • composed of three loosely connected novellas. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid and Bellerophoniad, whose titles refer eponymously to the mythical characters...
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    Mura is named the "Quartiere San Lorenzo".[citation needed] Because the Perseid Meteor Shower typically occurs annually in mid-August on or proximate to...
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    Retrieved 24 September 2010. "ToposText". topostext.org. "Capitains Nemo". cts.perseids.org. "Saint Christina of Tyre (July 24)". Official website of the Antiochian...
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    is related to how long ago the parent comet released the material. The Perseid meteor shower, for example, occurs every year between 9 and 13 August,...
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    been discovered. Comet 109P/Swift–Tuttle, which is also the source of the Perseid meteor shower every year in August, has a roughly 130-year orbit that passes...
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    a terrestrial observer) the paths of meteors appear to originate. The Perseids, for example, are meteors which appear to come from a point within the...
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  • Avatars of the Suns and the Route of Ages, but they are all but extinct now. Perseids, a highly intelligent race of alien scientists and bureaucrats. Pyrian...
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  • provides links to the digital editions not hosted by the Perseus Library, the Perseids Project, which aims to support access to Classics scholarship by providing...
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  • 169P/NEAT Eta Eridanids 31 Jul – 19 Aug 8 Aug 135.0 2.7 −11 64 3 medium Perseids 17 Jul – 24 Aug 12 Aug 140.0 3.2 +58 59 100 bright 109P/Swift-Tuttle Kappa...
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    crew departed on 22 July, and soon after Mir passed through the annual Perseid meteor shower, during which the station was hit by several particles. A...
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