{"id":13802,"date":"2024-08-10T06:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T01:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13802"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:56:17","slug":"what-is-the-perseid-meteor-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-perseid-meteor-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Perseid Meteor Shower?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Perseid Meteor Shower:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The name Perseid is believed to be derived from the <strong>Perseus constellation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It peaks <strong>during mid-August each<\/strong> year and is considered to be among the best meteor showers. Perseids, usually swift and bright, leave a trail of light and colour behind them as they traverse through the night sky.<\/li>\n<li>It is also one of the most plentiful showers with <strong>nearly 100 meteors<\/strong> seen per hour.<\/li>\n<li>The Perseids are special because they often <strong>generate fireballs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Fireballs are big bursts of light and color that last longer than a regular shooting star.<\/li>\n<li>This happens because fireballs come from larger pieces of <strong>material from comets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Meteor Shower<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A meteor is a <strong>space rock<\/strong> that comes into <strong>Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As it falls, the air makes it really hot because of the friction.<\/li>\n<li>The bright streak we see is not the rock itself, but the hot air around it.<\/li>\n<li>When many space rocks hit the atmosphere over Earth together, we <strong>call it a meteor shower.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These meteors travel at <strong>incredible speeds<\/strong>, reaching tens of thousands of kilometers per hour before disintegrating due to the intense heat generated by friction with the atmosphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a comet?<\/h3>\n<p>A comet is a celestial object composed of ice, dust, rock, and various volatile compounds that orbits the Sun in an elongated or elliptical path.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/perseid-meteor-shower-2024-origin-story-livestream-9504184\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Perseid meteor shower 2024 peaks this weekend: The origin story and how to watch it live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perseid meteor Shower  is believed to be derived from the Perseus constellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}