Meteor shower August 2009 time: at a glance

According to Patric Wiggins NASA Solar System Ambassador page, Meteors and Meteorite falls are often spellbinding, producing spectacular visual and audible effects when they occur.

Good news for the residents of Utah , the best show of the  Perseid Meteor Shower will be in Utah right above your head tonight. It will be clearly visible tonight precisely tomorrow in the pre-dawn hours after the moon set.

According to experts, the Perseid Meteor Shower have already started from July 17th and will be active until August 24th. You will be able to see meteors on any given night or morning, but the best show will be occur on Wednesday morning  around 4 AM.  So don’t miss the spectacular event and try to keep yours and kids head up at the sky.

Meteorites, even when they are not seen to fall, are tantalizing specimens because they represent extraterrestrial material which traveled hundreds of millions of billions of kilometers, over a period of 4.5 billion years, in orbit around the sun before colliding with the Earth.

Because these stones are fragments of other planetary bodies (mostly asteroids), some more primitive than the Earth, they have helped guide our search for the origin and evolution of our solar system.