It’s time for the Geminids meteor shower, and NASA is talking meteors
It’s time for the Geminids meteor shower, and NASA is giving meteor fans two chances to chat online with the experts.
The 2010 Geminid shower should produce 50-80 meteors per hour and maybe as many as 120 meteors per hour, NASA says. Anytime between now and Thursday is good viewing time, but tonight is the anticipated peak.
Today from 2-3 p.m. CST, Marshall Space Flight Center meteor experts Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw will answer questions. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke will be up all night from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. for a live chat.
According to NASA, “Geminids are pieces of debris from an object called 3200 Phaethon. Long thought to be an asteroid, Phaethon is now classified as an extinct comet. Basically it is the rocky skeleton of a comet that lost its ice after too many close encounters with the sun. Earth runs into a stream of debris from 3200 Phaethon every year in mid-December, causing meteors to fly from the constellation Gemini.”
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The best meteor shower of 2010, the Geminids, peaks in the early morning of December fourteen. I found this here: Geminids meteor shower tonight said to be the best ever Veteran air watchers look forward to the Geminids. The display is usually more intense than other yearly meteor showers. Of the many things that make the Geminids unusual, their origin from the path of a nearby asteroid enhances the visual impact of the meteor shower.