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<P Align=center> </ P> <P> Technology Channel (http://tech./) news: Summer is the best season to watch the meteor, when you see those many meteor, trailing light blue and white, .rapidly cut through the eastern night sky, really beautiful. .However, the meteors, some facts you may not be clear. .The following is August issue of "Discover" magazine summed up the fact that 20 of your knowledge: </ P> <P> 1. The most famous, the most spectacular meteor shower - the annual Perseid meteor shower on August 12 .peak. .Unfortunately, this year's meteor shower can not see, because an almost complete moon will illuminate the sky, diluted the meteor light. .</ P> <P> 2. In 258 AD, the Christian martyr St. Lawrence by the Romans burned alive with the outdoor furnace, the Perseid meteor shower is also known as "tears of St. Lawrence." .It is said that St. Lawrence died shouted: "I have burned the side. And if you want to be to roast me, I flipped the time." </ P> <P> 3. From an academic perspective, .Meteor (Meteor from the Greek word "meteoron", meaning "sky phenomenon.") just across the meteoroid when we see the light with the left. .Than a large meteoroid dust, interstellar objects smaller than the asteroid. .</ P> <P> 4. Once a collision with the Earth, a meteor hit Experience "identity crisis" and become meteorites. .</ P> <P> 5. Perseid meteoroids to about 13 million miles per hour, super speed into the atmosphere. .</ P> <P> 6. Meteorites, including the oldest known solar system rocks, and the solar system before the formation of particles and minerals. .The particles and minerals are formed around other stars, probably before the birth of the solar system billions of years time. .</ P> <P> 7. To prevent the International Space Station is expected during the life of 20 years, with about 100,000 meteoroid collided with the International Space Station covered a foot thick layer of Kevlar blankets, Kevlar .Seoul materials for the manufacture of body armor in the past. .</ P> <P> 8. Every day, up to 4 billion meteoroids fall to Earth. .</ P> <P> 9. Do not worry, most meteoroids are very small. .</ P> <P> </ p>.