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Tears of St. Lawrence on Friday night

August 12 from 2011 - 12: 18

La rain of stars that usually occurs every year in August will be visible this night, when the phenomenon will reach a hundred meteors per hour in its speed. This rain, also called Perseids o Tears of San Lorenzo, is actually the Remains of the comet Swift-Tuttle Whose dust particles are ignited and consumed, in a few seconds, when penetrating the atmosphere.

All the Society of Observers of Meteors and Comments of Spain They have indicated that the best places to enjoy the phenomenon will be places away from artificial light. In Dénia we will have the possibility of seeing it, taking advantage of the resources that the sea gives us, from any point of the 20 km of beach that we have at our disposal. However and despite the fact that it will shine very brightly, the full moon of the 13 August it will prevent us from seeing the meteor shower in all its splendor.

Therefore, the best option to see the galactic show will be Internet, since the NASA will make available to cybernauts a retransmission of the phenomenon in which in their course the interested parties will have the possibility of chatting with a team of astronomers of the Marshall Space Flight Center. All this will be in the NASA Web site to the 5: 00h on Saturday (Spanish time).

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