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The next big meteor shower to grace our skies is the Perseid meteor shower which is expected to peak around Aug. 11-12 .
Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the trail of dust left by a comet.
The ISS is protected from meteoroids because the ISS is equipped with a "Whipple bumper" shield.
The only satellite ever to be permanently taken out by a meteor shower was an Olympus communications satellite in 1993 .
The Meteoroid Environment Office's monitoring of meteor showers depends on observations from the ground.
Amateur astronomers can also provide observations.
Your observations could contribute to protecting a satellite or a spacewalking astronaut.
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