But there are more of those showers... Leonids etc.........
If you look long enough on such a night, and when you draw on a skymap where every falling star started and ended, you will get lines on that map, that seem to come from a single point in the sky.... that point in the sky is where you are looking straight in the train of meteorites coming at you. (as if you were standing on a railroad track, looking at the far away point where the rails seem to come from)
The perseids are called like that because they always seem to come out from a point in the sky in the constellation 'perseus'. But there are more of those showers... Leonids etc...
13-august is easy to forget, and when not, you can also be out of luck for cloudy weather... :-). but it is a great experience to have. go to place far out of the city. sometimes you see 3 falling stars in a minute or so, some really frightening bright. good for making a lot of wishes!
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Meteorites are formed when meteoroids fall to the surface of a planetary body, dwarf planet, moon, or asteroid. Meteoroids were formed in the very early solar system as dust particles in the disk of dust surrounding the sun coalesced (planets are thought to have formed in the same way). Some meteoroids must be pieces of asteroids, moons, or planets cast off when larger meteoroids or other asteroids collided with them. Meteors, of course, are the bright streak in the sky formed when meteoroids enter the atmosphere. Therefore, the moon does not have meteors, only meteorites!
The same way planets do, just on a smaller scale.
