The most visible meteor shower in most years are the Perseids, which peak on 12 August of each year at over one meteor per minute.

The Perseids () are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle.

They can be seen all across the sky, but because of the path of Swift-Tuttle's orbit, Perseids are primarily visible in the northern hemisphere.

The September Epsilon Perseids are a recently discovered meteor shower with a parent body in the Oort cloud.

The Perseids, an annual meteor shower, radiate from Perseus in late summer.

), Homeric Danaans, named, in myth, after Danaë, which suggests that the Perseids were in fact in some sort of dominion.

It contains the famous variable star Algol ( β Per ), and is also the location of the radiant of the annual Perseids meteor shower.

Amateur astronomers watch the night sky during the Perseids | Perseid meteor shower.

It treats the mythic heroes such as the Heraclids and the Perseids, offering a view of the occupation of the Peloponnesus that contains both fantastic and possibly historical elements.

They claimed the right of the Perseids to inherit the various kingdoms of the Peloponnesus and cast lots for the dominion of them.

The Perseids would have been in power ca.

* Perseids, a highly intelligent race of alien scientists and bureaucrats.

An observer of objects in the solar system, Schiaparelli worked with binary stars, discovered the asteroid 69 Hesperia on April 26, 1861, and demonstrated that the Perseids and Leonids meteor showers were associated with comets.

Geminids were first observed only 150 years ago, much more recently than other showers such as the Perseids and Leonids.

When the Leonid shower is not storming it is less active than the Perseids.

His work has won the Hugo Award ( for the novel Spin ), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award ( for the novel The Chronoliths ), the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award ( for the novelette " The Cartesian Theater "), three Aurora Awards ( for the novels Blind Lake and Darwinia, and the short work " The Perseids "), and the Philip K. Dick Award ( for the novel Mysterium ).

In addition to the novels listed below, he is the author of the short-story collection The Perseids and Other Stories, set in Toronto.

The 2010 Perseids over the ESO's Very Large Telescope | VLT.

Some Catholics refer to the Perseids as the " tears of St. Lawrence ", since 10 August is the date of that saint's martyrdom.

However, the Perseids included the great hero, Heracles, stepson of Amphitryon, son of Alcaeus.

Such showers include the Perseids ( 10 – 12 August ) and the December Geminids.

* August 9-Edward C. Herrick, in New Haven, Connecticut, identifies the Perseids as an annual phenomenon.

For instance, so-called `` conservative '' organizations, some of them secret, are sprouting in the garden of joining where `` liberal '' organizations once took root.

Others have so-called development plans, but some of these are little more than lists of projects collected from various ministries while others are statements of goals without analysis of the actions required to attain them.

The input light distributions considered are P-11 and P-20 phosphor emission and the so-called `` night light '' ( N.L. ) as given by H.W. Babcock and J. J. Johnson.

A great many retired people are the so-called white collar workers.

Pope Pius 12, declared in 1951 that it is possible to be exempt from the normal obligation of parenthood for a long time and even for the whole duration of married life, if there are serious reasons, such as those often mentioned in the so-called medical, eugenic, economic and social `` indications ''.

In the 2nd and 3rd century CE, those at Didyma and Clarus pronounced the so-called " theological oracles ", in which Apollo confirms that all deities are aspects or servants of an all-encompassing, highest deity.

For example, a common claim is that individuals who are diagnosed with one of the so-called " lesser disabilities " are being " accommodated " when they should not be.

The Ainu have broad faces, beetling eyebrows, and large sunken eyes, which are generally horizontal and of the so-called European type.

Of the people who live in the Andaman Islands, a small minority of about 1, 000 are the so-called Adamanese, the aboriginal inhabitants ( adivasi ) of the islands.

The Tokyo Convention states in Article 11, defining the so-called unlawful takeover of an aircraft, that the parties signing the agreement are obliged, in case of hijacking or a threat of it, to take all the necessary measures in order to regain or keep control over an aircraft.

Administrative law in the United States often involves the regulatory activities of so-called " independent agencies ", such as the Federal Trade Commission (" FTC "), whose Washington D. C. headquarters are shown above.

The so-called dezincification resistant ( DZR or DR ) brasses are used where there is a large corrosion risk and where normal brasses do not meet the standards.

The cells in the blood vessel walls are joined tightly to one another, forming the so-called blood – brain barrier, which protects the brain from toxins that might enter through the bloodstream.

Although passengers rarely have cause to refer to either document, all travel is subject to the National Rail Conditions of Carriage and all tickets are valid subject to the rules set out in a number of so-called technical manuals, which are centrally produced for the network.

BCS derived several important theoretical predictions that are independent of the details of the interaction, since the quantitative predictions mentioned below hold for any sufficiently weak attraction between the electrons and this last condition is fulfilled for many low temperature superconductors-the so-called weak-coupling case.

During this time in government, the Liberals are credited with the so-called Liberal Reforms, which saw the creation of a basic welfare state.

It culminated in the so-called brick Gothic, a reduced style of Gothic architecture that flourished in Northern Europe, especially in the regions around the Baltic Sea which are without natural rock resources.

These solutions have so-called naked singularities that can be observed from the outside, and hence are deemed unphysical.

Holdridge uses the four axes to define 30 so-called " humidity provinces ", which are clearly visible in the Holdridge diagram.

It is a key concept of the so-called Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation ( GLUE ) methodology to quantify how uncertain environmental predictions are.

The stars of the main asterism within a constellation are usually given Greek letters in their order of brightness, the so-called Bayer designation introduced by Johann Bayer in 1603.

These measurements are expected to provide further confirmation of the theory as well as information about cosmic inflation, and the so-called secondary anisotropies, such as the Sunyaev-Zel ' dovich effect and Sachs-Wolfe effect, which are caused by interaction between galaxies and clusters with the cosmic microwave background.