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Top 10 Facts: Perseid Meteor Shower
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 10 August 2004
07:00 am ET
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Back in the early 1990s, astronomer Brian Marsden calculated that Swift-Tuttle might actually hit Earth in the year 2026. More observations quickly eliminated all possibility of a collision. Marsden found, however, that the comet and Earth might experience a cosmic near miss (about a million miles) in 3044.
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