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This article is about a meteor shower in July. For othter uses of the term "Pegasid", see
Pegasid
.
The
meteor shower
of the
July Pegasids
occurs between July 4 and Aug 8. It is a weak meteor shower that has its maximum around July 11 having a
ZHR
of only 3 meteors per hour. The meteors have, however, an atmosphere entry speed of about 64 km/s.
The
Radiant
of the Pegasids is in the
constellation
of
Pegasus
, around 5 degrees to the west of the
star
α Pegasi
. The origin of this meteor shower is probably the
comet
C/1979 Y1 (Bradfield)
.
[2]
C/1979 Y1 has an orbital period of 308 years,
[3]
and should return around 2287.
For
Central Europe
, the best time to watch them is the second half of the night, as the radiant reaches at that time a sufficient height over the
horizon
.
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