Meteor shower puts on weekend spectacular

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Meteor shower puts on weekend spectacular

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Canadian skies will be streaked with hundreds of meteors Sunday evening as the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak.

The month-long natural light show began on July 17, but it is this weekend that sky watchers will be most eagerly scouring the heavens.

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is predicting 100 meteors an hour will burn trails across the atmosphere, starting about midnight Sunday night and lasting until the first light of dawn on Monday.