The Perseid meteor shower is anticipated to be at its peak in the next few nights with a predicted 60-100 brightly, colorful meteors shooting through the sky per hour. The annual meteor shower is active through the summer month of July 23 through Aug. 22, but the peak and potential to see the best display of meteors are this weekend, on Aug. 11 and 12. Jim Honeycutt, adjunct lecturer in astronomy at Oxford College, explains that meteor showers are the results of comets passing through the Earth's orbit on their trip around the Sun. As they get closer to the Sun, they start to melt, releasing