Comet Swift-Tuttle: The Icy Parent of the Perseid Meteor Shower



11th August: The spectacular Perseid meteor shower, peaking tonight lights up Earth’s sky every summer as Earth passes through the trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, a miles-wide behemoth that swings by Earth every 133 years. According to reports,

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