I remember walking up a mountain road in Juneau from 11pm to 2am, just staring at the northern lights. Never saw anything so beautiful. I'll bet the meteor shower is beyond awesome.
Did you happen to see this?
BTTT
www.spaceweather.com has an ani-gif of a tuarid caught on camera.
I have seen five of them here in NH. But that was Thursday and Friday evening. I thought it was fireworks for a brief second - not like any meteor shower I have witnessed!
I got a question: If the dust particles &/or pebbles that make up meteorites show up in the same part of the sky at the same time of year, year after year, then that must mean they are not orbiting the Sun like we are. So why don't they just fall toward the Sun, instead of staying in one place like they seem to do?