- Title: Meteor shower a dazzling spectacle over Bosnia sky
- Date: 13th August 2019
- Summary: PRIJEDOR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (AUGUST 12, 2019) (REUTERS) TIME-LAPSES SHOWING METEORS STREAKING ACROSS NIGHT SKY OVER MONUMENT TO 1940'S REVOLUTION IN KOZARA NATIONAL PARK (MUTE) VARIOUS OF STARGAZERS IN CHAIRS WATCHING METEOR SHOWER (SOUNDBITE) (Bosnian) STARGAZER, EMIR MRAHOVIC, SAYING: "We've been observing and photographing this phenomenon for years. It's pleasing, it's beautiful." KEBABS BEING BARBECUED ON GRILL MRAHOVIC PREPARING PICNIC TABLE FOR MEAL TIME-LAPSE OF NIGHT SKY OVER MONUMENT (MUTE) RADIMLJA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (AUGUST 13, 2019) (REUTERS) STARGAZERS SEATED NEAR MEDIEVAL TOMBS OBSERVING SKY STARGAZER LOOKING AT SKY STARGAZERS SITTING IN CHAIRS WATCHING METEOR SHOWER CAMERA RECORDING METEOR SHOWER, POINTING AT SKY (SOUNDBITE) (Bosnian) STARGAZER, IVAN PULJIC, SAYING: "I'm here again tonight with my friends, to see the phenomenon of falling (shooting) stars from this beautiful place. This is the darkest part of the town and is the best to view this phenomenon." (SOUNDBITE) (Croatian) STARGAZER AND VISITOR FROM CROATIA, MARIJA (SURNAME UNKNOWN), SAYING: "We expect a spectacle tonight. There - I think one (a meteor) just fell." VARIOUS OF TIME-LAPSES OF NIGHT SKY ABOVE MEDIEVAL TOMBS (MUTE)
- Embargoed: 27th August 2019 11:15
- Keywords: Bosnia meteor shower meteor perseid meteor shower star gazing perseids
- Location: RADIMLJA AND PRIJEDOR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- City: RADIMLJA AND PRIJEDOR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Topics: Environment,Weather,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001AS1XPH5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Stargazers traded the bright city lights for dark secluded areas in Bosnia to watch the Perseid meteor shower between Saturday evening and Tuesday morning (August 10 - 13).
Groups gathered across the country to enjoy the spectacle, which occurs every August when the Earth passes through the debris of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, discovered in 1862.
Keen stargazer Emir Mrahovic said he has been observing the beautiful phenomenon for years, as he sat with friends for a barbecue in Kozara National Park.
Meteors are parts of rock and dust that hit the Earth's atmosphere, heat up and glow. Most vaporise as they descend, but some explode.
The phenomenon is best viewed in the northern hemisphere in isolated areas where there is little light pollution from cities and traffic.
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