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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...
- 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****...
- 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...
- Heracleidae on their return to the Peloponnesus. They claimed the right of the ****ids to inherit the various kingdoms of the Peloponnese and cast lots for the...
- 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...
- Gr****: Γοργοφόνη) was queen of both Messenia and Sparta and a member of the ****id dynasty. Her name means "Gorgon Slayer", a tribute to her father ****us...
- The daytime showers are active from May to July (Beta Taurids and Zeta ****ids), while the nighttime showers are active from September to December. Typically...
- showers Lyrids Meteor air burst North American Meteor Network Orionids ****ids Tollmann's hypothetical bolide BaetylSacred stones possibly originating...
- from mid-July to mid-August, with the peak usually around July 28–29. The ****ids, a major meteor shower, typically takes place between July 17 and August...