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Monday 13 August 2007

Incredible meteor shower lights up sky

Daily Mail Headline; says: ' A spectacular meteor shower lit up the skies over Britain last night. Multi-coloured shooting stars raced toward the Earth at the rate of more than one a minute. Clear skies and the weak light of a new moon made the Perseid shower one of the most dramatic in recent years. It was visible from midnight on Sunday to 2am on Monday. Dr Robert Massey, of the Royal Astronomical Society, said: "If you have never seen a meteor shower, this is a really nice opportunity to watch one.