The Perseid meteor shower is the result of the Earth ploughing through debris left behind by the Swift-Tuttle Comet during its trips through the inner solar system.
The Perseid bits were shed long ago by Comet Swift-Tuttle and are distributed all along the comet`s orbital path around the Sun. Earth passes through this tenuous "river of rubble" every year in mid-August.
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