2023-08-09 20:02:25
The Earth’s atmosphere witnesses meteor showers called “Pershawyat” during the period from July 17 to August 24. The “Pershawyat” is attributed to the constellation “Pershaws”, which the Arabs called “the bearer of Ra’s al-Ghul”, and the peak of these showers occurs on the 12th and 13th of August of each year, and their number exceeds one hundred meteors per hour. Ibrahim Al Jarwan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Astronomy Society, a member of the Arab Federation for Astronomy and Space Sciences, said that the meteors shine in the darkest nights in which the bright moon disk is absent, or any artificial lighting or air pollutants that limit the capabilities of observation with the naked eye. He pointed out that meteors are divided into two main groups, the first is “single or random meteors”, which can see at least 5 of them on normal nights and from different regions and at different times, and the second section is “meteor showers”. Al-Jarwan explained that the Perseids were also named for the presence of a radiation point between the stars of the Perseus group, and each meteor shower has its own radiation point, and the star group is a number of stars that the ancients imagined in the form of a tool or an animal, indicating that if the number of meteors per hour reached a thousand meteors in The hour or more was called a meteor storm
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