If you have a couple of hours to spare tonight ...

... you might want to take in the Perseid Meteor Shower.

The Moon is least troublesome during the early evening hours of August 11th. Around 9 to 11 p.m. local time (your local time), both Perseus and the Moon will be hanging low in the north. This low profile reduces lunar glare while positioning the shower's radiant for a nice display of Earthgrazers.

It's one of the best times of the year to view meteor showers.

Those Kooky Ruskies

Russian scientist thinks alien ship saved the planet Earth.

Dr. Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists that an alien spacecraft sacrificed itself to prevent a gigantic meteor from slamming into the planet above Siberia on June 30, 1908.

The result was was the Tunguska event ...

His evidence?

Labvin thinks quartz slabs with strange markings found at the site are remnants of an alien control panel, which fell to the ground after the UFO slammed into the giant rock.

"We don't have any technologies that can print such kind of drawings on crystals," Labvin told the Macedonian International News Agency.

Okay. Anything else?

"We also found ferrum silicate that can not be produced anywhere, except in space."

Someone can correct me if I am wrong but ... don't meteors come from outer space?