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Today’s Google Trends: Meteor shower

by Andrew Redfern @ 12th August 2008 10:34 am

Todays hottest search on Google was “meteor shower”. The evening of the 12th August and morning of the 13th August is the annual maximum of the Perseid meteor shower.
At its peak and in a clear, dark sky up to 80 ‘shooting stars’ or meteors may be visible each hour. Meteors are the result of small particles entering the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed and in the case of the Perseid shower these come from the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle, which was last in the vicinity of the Earth in 1992. To the eye, the meteors appear to originate from a ‘radiant’ in the constellation of Perseus, hence the name Perseid.
Although the Perseids peak on the 12th August, the shower can be seen for some time either side of that date and it is worth looking out for them the night before (i.e. from the evening of 11th August). To see the meteor shower, look towards the north-eastern sky from 2200 BST onwards. In clear weather and away from the light pollution of major cities, it should be possible to see a meteor at least every few minutes, with most appearing as brief streaks of light. The waxing gibbous Moon will be in the evening sky but will have set by 0130 BST on the morning of the maximum so its light will not interfere with the view after that time.

Google has today released its hottest searches. The Google trends daily hot list is based on Google user searches and are listed below.

(1)my best friends girl
(2)jonathan horton
(3)meteor shower
(4)justin spring
(5)isaac hayes cause of death
(6)weeds season 4 episode 9
(7)rebecca soni
(8)meteor shower august 12
(9)lovieanne jung
(10)men s gymnastics
(11)joe hagerty
(12)kevin tan
(13)david durante
(14)the time machine
(15)samantha mumba
(16)barry switzer
(17)hamm brothers
(18)caitlin lowe
(19)perseids
(20)weeds s04e09
(21)shelley malil
(22)alexander artemev
(23)1 mind ministries
(24)perseid meteor shower 2008
(25)paul and morgan hamm
(26)sasha artemev
(27)aaron piersol
(28)usa vs angola
(29)thomas finchum
(30)perseus constellation
(31)madden 09 roster update
(32)yang wei
(33)paul hahn
(34)pommel horse
(35)rudy
(36)natalie coughlin
(37)abu saeed al masri
(38)michael phelps father
(39)mary beth dunnichay
(40)the american mall
(41)jenny finch
(42)lovie jung
(43)meters to feet
(44)hamm gymnastics
(45)us mens gymnastics team
(46)chen yibing
(47)hemophiliac
(48)chad johnson
(49)yang yun
(50)li xiaopeng
(51)matt grevers
(52)david boudia
(53)diacritical mark
(54)intervention allison
(55)peirsol
(56)peter vanderkaay
(57)shooting stars
(58)world s tallest man
(59)zou kai
(60)cabelas
(61)matt biondi
(62)olympic softball
(63)casey jennings
(64)hamm olympics
(65)jordan palmer
(66)natalie woolfolk
(67)haley ishimatsu
(68)people won t be people when they hear this sound
(69)russia and georgia map
(70)september 2008 visa bulletin
(71)medal count
(72)megan jendrick
(73)double jointed
(74)paul hamm 2008 olympics
(75)duster
(76)rudy ruettiger
(77)matt treanor
(78)paciugo
(79)kerri walsh black thing on shoulder
(80)inhaling duster
(81)derek redmond
(82)gmail down
(83)cincinnati bengals
(84)john horton
(85)joseph hagerty
(86)mary corello
(87)the body hunters
(88)ecreamery
(89)currituck lighthouse
(90)mary carillo
(91)howard bach
(92)doumars
(93)harvard university
(94)tulane university
(95)trent dimas
(96)blaine wilson
(97)mark spitz gold medals
(98)misty may
(99)rob mayes
(100)2008 olympic medal count

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