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.
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