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Top 10 Perseid Meteor Shower Facts
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 12:13 pm ET
07 August 2002

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Swift-Tuttle is due back in 2126 (as you know now, it won't hit us) and astronomers think it might become a spectacular naked-eye comet like Hale-Bopp. If historical calculations are correct (see Fact #9) then the 2126 appearance will mark the comet's 3rd millennia of human observation, assuming someone is in fact around to see it.

Find full Perseid coverage in our Spacewatch section.

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