Real Geminid Meteor Shower

This friday look up to the sky to catch one of the most prolific and reliable meteor showers of the year.

Real geminid meteor shower. It s arguably the best meteor display of the year and it reaches its height during the heart of the. I experimented with two things for this. The shower owes its name to the constellation gemini.

Jonti horner university of southern queensland and tanya hill museums victoria. Where 2019 was a disappointing year for meteor showers with two of the big three the quadrantids perseids and geminids lost mainly to moonlight 2020 promises to be much better. By gillian smith patch staff aug 6 2020 12 11 p m pt.

A large meteor streaks across the sky at 10 13 p m. The geminid meteor shower will put on a dazzling d. Geminid meteors are bright and fast 79 000 mph and the shower is famous for producing fireballs.

Flickr jeff sullivan cc by nc nd. During the annual geminid meteor shower over springville ala thursday dec. It s a middle of the road meteor shower with rates not as laggard as the northern taurids for example but less prolific than the annual perseids or geminids.

List of meteor showers. A composite image of one night watching the orionids meteor shower. The geminids are considered to be one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year with the possibility of sighting around 120 meteors per hour at its peak which is on december 13 or 14 depending on your time zone.

The shooting stars have aligned for this weekend s peak of the annual geminid meteor shower. The geminid meteor shower caused by the 3200 phaethon asteroid the geminids orbit brings it very close to the sun resulting in its surface material crumbling and breaking off. Meteor showers don t require binoculars or telescopes to view just your bare eyes and some.