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Geminid Meteor Shower


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The peak time for this years display will be early tomorrow morning (around 3am), but if you can get out of the city look towards the Northern horizon and you should be able to see activity every two to three minutes. If you're not keen on waking at 1am and trekking for two hours into the bush at least try to find some high ground where you are, take a look skywards and wait a few minutes to 'get your eye in' and you should at least be able to a couple of shooting stars.

 

Don't forget to make a wish.

 

"The Geminid meteor shower is named after the constellation Gemini, which is located in roughly the same point of the night sky where the Geminid meteor shower appears to originate from. In late autumn or early winter, that means viewing the spectacular light show with eyes pointed straight up in the night sky.

Geminids are pieces of debris from 3200 Phaethon, basically a rocky skeleton of a comet that lost most of its outer covering of ice after too many close encounters with the sun.

Each December, Earth passes through the debris cloud left by the comet as sand-sized specks enter the earth's atmosphere producing a spectacular show of falling stars."

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