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NE Texas Meteor Likely A Stray, Not Part Of Perseid Showers

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published August 2, 2021 at 9:34 AM CDT
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Dr. Kent Montgomery, Physics and Astonomy department head at Texas A&M-Commerce, says the meteor seen by many in Northeast Texas the night of July 25 was likely not part of the annual Peseid meteor showers, which have started but will not peak until the nights of Wednesday and Thursday, August 11-12.

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John Mark Dempsey
John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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