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Title: meteor coming up august 12,2010
Post by: ttwjr32 on July 20, 2010, 08:41:55 pm

the 2000 year old Perseid meteor shower will appear over China during the late evening of
August 12 and will last until the early morning of August 13. The shower will consist of about
100 meteors an hour. from inner mongolia were the best veiw will be but if the sky is clear then
it will be seen as far as Shanghia

Title: Re: meteor coming up august 12,2010
Post by: Bee964 on July 20, 2010, 09:52:40 pm

Ted,

Just make sure you get out of the big city for the best view. If there really is 100 meteors per hour it makes for a nice show in the night sky. August 10th is a new moon so there should be no moon in the sky to contend with either.

Dave C

Title: Re: meteor coming up august 12,2010
Post by: ttwjr32 on July 20, 2010, 10:27:46 pm

probably will be in Guangzhou at that time not sure

Title: Re: meteor coming up august 12,2010
Post by: temur72 on July 21, 2010, 03:51:20 am

I will be in China for that

Either Shanghai, Suzhou or Jilin at the time