VIDEO SPECIAL: Perseid Meteors vs The Supermoon
By NASA.gov // August 5, 2014
AUGUST FEATURES biggest full MoonS
ABOVE VIDEO: Which is brighter – a flurry of Perseid fireballs or a supermoon?
Sky watchers will find out this August when the biggest and brightest full Moon of 2014 arrives just in time for the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle.
The Perseids are so-called because the point from which they appear to come, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus.
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