Perseids, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 45 relations: Adolphe Quetelet, Against the Day, American Meteor Society, Angelo Secchi, Apsis, Assonance, Asteroid impact prediction, Astronomical unit, August, Camelopardalis, Cassiopeia (constellation), Catholic Church, Christianization of saints and feasts, Comet Swift–Tuttle, Constellation, Curious George, Earth-grazing fireball, Egypt, Folklore, Full moon, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Greek mythology, John Denver, July, Leonids, List of asteroid close approaches to Earth, Lunar phase, Martyr, Meteor shower, Meteoroid, NASA, New moon, Northern Hemisphere, Orbit, Perseides, Perseus, Perseus (constellation), Radiant (meteor shower), Rocky Mountain High, Saint, Saint Lawrence, Tarot, Thomas Pynchon, White Desert National Park, Zenithal hourly rate.

2. Meteor showers

Adolphe Quetelet

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.

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Against the Day

Against the Day is an epic historical novel by Thomas Pynchon, published on November21, 2006.

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American Meteor Society

The American Meteor Society, Ltd. (AMS) is a non-profit scientific organization established to encourage and support the research activities of both amateur and professional astronomers who are interested in the field of meteor astronomy.

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Angelo Secchi

Angelo Secchi (28 June 1818 – 26 February 1878) was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia.

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Apsis

An apsis is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body.

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Assonance

Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar phonemes in words or syllables that occur close together, either in terms of their vowel phonemes (e.g., lean green meat) or their consonant phonemes (e.g., Kip keeps capes). However, in American usage, assonance exclusively refers to this phenomenon when affecting vowels, whereas, when affecting consonants, it is generally called ''consonance''.

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Asteroid impact prediction

Asteroid impact prediction is the prediction of the dates and times of asteroids impacting Earth, along with the locations and severities of the impacts.

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Astronomical unit

The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to.

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August

August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Camelopardalis

Camelopardalis is a large but faint constellation of the northern sky representing a giraffe.

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Cassiopeia (constellation)

Cassiopeia is a constellation and asterism in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia, mother of Andromeda, in Greek mythology, who boasted about her unrivaled beauty.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Christianization of saints and feasts

The term Christianized calendar refers to feast days which are Christianized reformulations of feasts from pre-Christian times.

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Comet Swift–Tuttle

Comet Swift–Tuttle (formally designated 109P/Swift–Tuttle) is a large periodic comet with a 1995 (osculating) orbital period of 133 years that is in a 1:11 orbital resonance with Jupiter.

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Constellation

A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.

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Curious George

Curious George is a fictional monkey who is the title character of a series of popular children's picture books written and illustrated by Margret and H. A. Rey.

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Earth-grazing fireball

An Earth-grazing fireball (or Earth grazer) is a fireball, a very bright meteor that enters Earth’s atmosphere and leaves again.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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Full moon

The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective.

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Giovanni Schiaparelli

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (14 March 1835 – 4 July 1910) was an Italian astronomer and science historian.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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John Denver

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer and songwriter.

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July

July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Leonids

The Leonids are a prolific annual meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle, and are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about every 33 years. Perseids and Leonids are meteor showers.

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List of asteroid close approaches to Earth

This is a list of examples where an asteroid or meteoroid travels close to the Earth.

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Lunar phase

A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth).

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Martyr

A martyr (mártys, 'witness' stem, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.

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Meteor shower

A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. Perseids and meteor shower are meteor showers.

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Meteoroid

A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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New moon

In astronomy, the new moon is the first lunar phase, when the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude.

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Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

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Orbit

In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point.

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Perseides

In Greek mythology, the Perseides, "those born of Perseus" and Andromeda, are the members of the House of Perseus, descended, according to Valerius Flaccus through Perse and Perses.

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Perseus

In Greek mythology, Perseus (Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty.

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Perseus (constellation)

Perseus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the Greek mythological hero Perseus.

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Radiant (meteor shower)

The radiant or apparent radiant of a meteor shower is the celestial point in the sky from which (from the point of view of a terrestrial observer) the paths of meteors appear to originate. Perseids and radiant (meteor shower) are meteor showers.

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Rocky Mountain High

"Rocky Mountain High" is a folk rock song written by John Denver and Mike Taylor and is one of the two official state songs of Colorado.

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence or Laurence (Laurentius, lit. "laurelled"; 31 December AD 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman Emperor Valerian ordered in 258.

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Tarot

Tarot (first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.

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White Desert National Park

Sahara el Beyda, the White Desert Protected Area, is a national park in Egypt, first established as a protected area in 2002.

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Zenithal hourly rate

In astronomy, the zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) of a meteor shower is the number of meteors a single observer would see in an hour of peak activity if the radiant was at the zenith, assuming the seeing conditions are perfect (when and where stars with apparent magnitudes up to 6.5 are visible to the naked eye).

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See also

Meteor showers

• Alpha Capricornids
• Alpha Centaurids
• Alpha Monocerotids
• Andromedids
• Aquariids
• Arietids
• Aurigids
• Beta Taurids
• Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance
• Canis-Minorids
• Coma Berenicids
• Delta Aurigids
• Delta Cancrids
• Draconids
• Eta Aquariids
• Eta Carinids
• Gamma Normids
• Geminids
• June Bootids
• Kappa Cygnids
• Leonids
• Leonis Minorids
• List of meteor showers
• Lyrids
• Meteor shower
• Monocerotids
• Omicron Centaurids
• Orionids
• Pegasids
• Perseids
• Phoenicids
• Pi Puppids
• Population index
• Quadrantids
• Radiant (meteor shower)
• Sigma Hydrids
• Southern Delta Aquariids
• Tau Herculids
• Taurids
• Theta Centaurids
• Ursids
• Virginids
• Zeta Perseids

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids

Also known as Perseid, Perseid meteor, Perseid meteor shower, Perseid meteor shower 2009, Perseid meteors, Perseid shower, Perseids meteor shower, Persid Meteor Shower, Persid Shower, Persids, Persieds, Perséides, Tears of Saint Lawrence.