On which nights does the 2026 Perseid meteor shower reach its peak?
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August 12–13
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On which nights does the 2026 Perseid meteor shower reach its peak?
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August 12–13
The 2026 Perseid meteor shower appears to radiate from which constellation?
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Perseus
For the 2026 Perseid meteor shower, which comet supplies the debris that creates it?
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109P/Swift–Tuttle
At which California site did James Marshall discover gold in 1848, starting the California Gold Rush?
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Sutter's Mill
In what year was Jamestown, Virginia, founded as the first permanent English settlement in America?
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1607
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