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Perseids meteor shower, which was expected to reach peak Sunday night, was invisible in the Jakarta sky as the sky was not dark enough.

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Thousands of people in the northern hemisphere have witnessed a spectacular light show of shooting stars, known as the Perseid meteor shower.
The annual event coincided with a new Moon, providing stargazers with the best viewing conditions for years.
The shower lasts about two weeks, but reached its peak overnight on Sunday.

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Spectacular shooting stars show forecast for Russia
For those, who hope to make a wish come true, the best advice is to look to the skies. If it stays clear in the European area of Russia on Sunday night, sky watchers are in for a treat with meteor or "shooting stars" activity reaching its peak tonight.

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The shower this year coincides with a new Moon, providing sky watchers with the dark skies necessary for excellent observing conditions.

Diagram showing location of the Perseid shower in the night sky (Image: BBC)

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This year the Perseids are visible from 17 July to 24 August. One or two per hour can be seen at the start, increasing to about five to ten per hour in early August. The display will be at its maximum before sunrise on 13 August, when 80 to 100 meteors should be visible every hour, weather permitting.

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Tens of thousands of interplanetary objects that have been circling the sun for four billion years will finally slam into the Earth at enormous velocity in August. No corner of  the globe is immune as the planet inexorably rotates to expose every continent, every square mile, every human being to this enormous interplanetary cloud of debris that will fall onto us like a hard crimson rain. Is this the end of humanity? Of all life on earth?
No, it's the annual Perseid meteor showers.

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"It's going to be a great show. The Moon is new on August 12th--which means no moonlight, dark skies and plenty of meteors" -  Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Centre.

 How many? Cooke estimates one or two Perseids per minute at the shower's peak.
The show begins between 9:00 and 10:00 pm on Sunday, August 12th, when Perseus rises in the northeast. This is the time to look for Perseid Earthgrazers--meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping the surface of a pond.

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The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on 'a great show' this year, peaking in mid-August with a display of dozens of shooting stars each hour.
The Moon will be out of the way, leaving dark skies for good viewing as Earth plunges through an ancient stream of comet debris. Little bits, most no larger than sand grains, will vaporize in Earth's atmosphere, creating sometimes-dramatic "shooting stars."

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