A healthy person usually has a platelet count of 150,000 to 400,000. You have thrombocytopenia if your number falls under 150,000. If you're wondering what the long name means, here's how it breaks down: thrombocytes are your platelets and penia means you don't have enough of something.
The Perseids are active from July 13 to August 26, according to the American Meteor Society, a nonprofit scientific organization that supports the research of astronomers, but the meteor shower peaks between August 12-13.
This meteor shower is active each year from around mid-July to late-August, but for most of that period only a few meteors an hour will be visible. The Comet Swift-Tuttle, which creates one of the worldâs most famous meteor showers, last passed near the Earth in 1992, and is expected to be seen again in 2125.