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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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Swift-Tuttle's orbit has been traced back nearly 2,000 years and is now thought to be the same comet that was observed in 188 AD and possibly even as early as 69 BC.

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