A Guide to Search Results for "Perseid Meteor Shower"
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The "Perseid Meteor Showers" begin in late July, and they are most intense two weeks later during the nights of mid-August. They are caused by the tiny grains of dust and debris that the Swift-Tuttle comet leaves behind when it occasionally visits the inner solar system, and they are named after the constellation Perseus, in which their radiant lies at the time of shower maximum.

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• Gary W. Kronk's Comets & Metor Showers: The Perseids
  Authoritative information about the Perseid meteor showers, including history, photos, and links.

• Thursday's Classroom Corner - The Perseid Meteor Shower
  A lesson plan in re the Perseid meteor shower.

• Science @ Nasa - Summer Meteor Shower
  July 19, 2002
  
  Article profiling the annual Perseid meteor shower.

• Space.com - Shooting Stars! Viewer's Guide to the Perseid Meteor Shower
  July 31, 2001
  Robert Roy Britt

• SpaceScience.com - The Extraordinary Geomagnetic Perseid Meteor Shower
  August 14, 2000
  
  Dated article narrating a geomagnetic storm which triggered a dazzling aurora during the peak of the 2000 Perseid meteor shower.

• SpaceScience.com - Perseid Dawn
  August 8, 2000
  
  Dated article discussing the annual Perseid meteor shower.

• Science @ Nasa - Here come the Perseid meteors
  August 9, 1999
  
  Dated article profiling the annual Perseid meteor shower.

• Science @ Nasa - Weak Impact: The Perseid Meteor Shower
  August 5, 1998
  
  Dated article profiling the annual Perseid meteor shower.