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meteor showers as seen from space perseid meteor shower this shower peaks in mid august when earth intersects the dust cloud left by comet swift tuttle learn more view more showers all major meteor showers these showers occur at various points of the year and originate from multiple comets and asteroids iau shower view more showers view on solar system follow earth watch from earth input iau number source meteorshowersonline com what am i looking at meteor showers on earth are caused by streams of meteoroids hitting our atmosphere these meteoroids are sand and pebble sized bits of rock that were once released from their parent comet some comets are no longer active and are now called asteroids this visualization shows these meteoroid streams orbiting the sun some stretching to the outer regions of the solar system select the meteor shower in the menu to see the corresponding meteoroid stream in space their meteoroid orbits are based on those measured by nasa s cams video camera surveillance network and were calculated by meteor astronomer peter jenniskens of the seti institute and nasa ames research center this visualization is developed and hosted by ian webster how can i see a meteor shower meteor showers are best seen on certain dark and clear nights to see how many meteors per hour are visible from your location go to this website and select the date the shower and your location where should i go next if you like these sorts of interactive visualizations take a look at ian webster s other tools including pluto ancient earth or asteroids can i use this on my site sure use the following code to load the interactive visualization in an iframe you must know the iau number of your meteor shower which you can look up here iframe src https www meteorshowers org view iau 7 width 500 height 500 frameborder 0 iframe please remember to attribute this site how can i build something similar the visualization engine used for meteorshowers org has been released as spacekit js give it a try click and drag to turn right click to pan scroll to zoom meteor data from peter jenniskens visualization developed by ian webster loading shower data meteorshowers org you need javascript enabled in order to use this web application