PERSEID FIREBALL: "On August 9th I photographed 17 Perseids," reports John Chumack of Dayton, Ohio. "The best one was a fireball of magnitude -8, about 40 times brighter than Venus. It had a double explosion, too!"
"The Perseid meteor shower is definitely underway," he says.
It should get even better in the nights ahead. Members of the International Meteor Organization are now counting more than 25 Perseids per hour: data. The rate is expected to increase almost 10-fold on the night of August 11th and 12th when Earth passes through a denser-than-usual filament of comet dust crossing Earth's orbit. Oberving tips may be found in the Science@NASA story "The Perseids are Coming."
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