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Definition of Perseids

Perseid
Perseid Per"se*id, n. (Astron.) One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862.

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- 2009 ****id Meteor Fireball NASA website on the ****id shower of 2009 Sky & Telescope Magazine****ids at Their Prime 2012 Image of ****ids emanating...
- In Gr**** mythology, the ****ids (sg. ****id; Ancient Gr****: Περσείδαι, romanized: ****ídai, lit. 'those born of ****us', sg. Περσείδης ****ídēs)...
- ****id in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ****id (archaically spelt ****ide) may refer to: Any meteor of the ****ids Any member of the ****ids (mythology)...
- Electryon to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus got the kingdom. However, the ****ids included the great hero, Heracles, stepson of Amphitryon, son of Alcaeus...
- the leading shower. In most years, the most visible meteor shower is the ****ids, which peak on 12 August of each year at over one meteor per minute. NASA...
- The Zeta ****ids (ζ–****ids) 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...
- 250 million light-years from Earth. It hosts the radiant of the annual ****ids meteor shower—one of the most prominent meteor showers in the sky. In Gr****...
- distinguished; they contain the clan of the Achaemenids from which spring the ****id kings. Other tribes are the Panthialaei, Derusiaei, Germanii, all of which...
- composed of three loosely connected novellas. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, ****id and Bellerophoniad, whose titles refer eponymously to the mythical characters...
- Brightest star α Cas (Schedar) (2.24m) Messier objects 2 Meteor showers ****ids Bordering constellations Camelopardalis Cepheus Lacerta Andromeda ****us...