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Keith Cooper

Venus may get a huge meteor shower this July, thanks to a long-ago asteroid breakup

An artist's impression of an asteroid fragmenting into multiple chunks. The chunks come from a glowing light to the left of the image.

Venus could experience a dramatic meteor shower this summer, the result of the breaking apart of a nearby asteroid that has left a trail of dust in its wake.

The meteor shower is predicted to next take place on July 5, but observing it from Earth is going to be difficult. Only superbright fireballs, with a magnitude of around minus 12 to minus 15 — roughly the same brightness in our sky as the moon — will be visible from our planet.

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