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The Geminid meteor shower lights up the night sky in December 2017 above Tybee Island in Georgia. The year's best meteor shower, the Geminids, peak Dec. 12.
A meteor streaks in the night sky Dec. 14, 2023 above the border wall in Arizona between the U.S. and Mexico during the annual Geminids meteor shower. When can you see the Geminid meteor shower?
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Sky-gazers may get the chance to glimpse some of the dozens of meteors that will streak across the sky as the annual Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. The Geminids are expected to be most ...
The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower with 3200 Phaethon (which is thought to be an Apollo asteroid [4] with a "rock comet" orbit. [ 5 ] ) being the parent body. [ 6 ] Because of this, it would make this shower, along with the Quadrantids , the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet .
The Geminid meteor shower, one of the strongest and most reliable annual showers, will peak this Thursday — and viewers could see up to 120 meteors per hour.
This list of meteor streams and peak activity times is based on data from the International Meteor Organization while most of the parent body associations are from Gary W. Kronk book, Meteor Showers: A Descriptive Catalog, Enslow Publishers, New Jersey, ISBN 0-89490-071-4, and from Peter Jenniskens's book, "Meteor Showers and Their Parent ...
The Geminid meteor shower seen from the top of Niubei Mountain in Ya'an, Sichuan province, China, on Dec. 14, 2023.