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Friday, August 14, 2009

Meteor shower lights up the world's skies

Stargazers around the world have been admiring the annual Perseid meteor shower.
The spectacular display occurs every August when the Earth passes through a stream of space debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle. The shower reached its peak in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Cloud cover hampered the opportunity for many in the UK to watch the interstellar cascade. Matt Dobson, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather arm of the Press Association, said people in northern England and Scotland may have had a clearer view.

"There's a north-south split from North Wales, to Birmingham and then to East Anglia", he said. "South of that there's a lot of cloud around and very little chance of seeing any clear spells. There was a much better chance of seeing it in the north."

The Newbury Astronomical Society had said it was hoping to make it a global social event with the help of the Twitter networking site.

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