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.
A meteor shower is when a number of meteors â or shooting stars â flash across the night sky, seemingly from the same point. Geminid Meteor Shower of 2012. Meteors are also known as shooting stars. They look like a streak of light shooting across the night sky.