Why has google got shooting stars on the homepage?
Google often celebrate events by changing the Google logo on their homepage for a day. Today they are celebrating the Perseid Meteor Shower. It’s debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle that the Earth passes through each year. There’s a twitter feed you can track of it on http://twitter.com/NewburyAS You can see all of the previous logos in the google museum http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html As for when the best time to view the Perseids: “In the UK, the best times to see the Perseids are likely to be on the morning of 12 August before dawn and from late evening on the 12th through to the early hours of the 13 August.” http://news.bbc.co.
