Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight

Grab something warm and go to a dark place to enjoy the beautiful Geminids peak on December 13 and 14 days.

Gemini meteor shower is an annual meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through the debris tail of the asteroid 3200 Phaethon. Most meteor showers come from comets, which emit small, burning in the atmosphere of the ice planet. Phaethon is not a comet but a strange asteroid, astronomers also called "rock comet", which means that it is close to the sun, heat, dust, dirt in the sky of the earth in a meteor.

This is the first time, can also by the tail of the Earth, another object, Comet Wirtanen This is the meteor action. Scientists are not quite sure, the Earth will experience the Wirtanen the tail, but if so, can be generated by the second meteor shower can be termed as the Piscids.

Check out the Geminids meteor shower in your local time zone at any time to get a glimpse of the midnight clear gain until dawn. Beautiful yellow stripes, illuminated the sky, up to 160 meteors per hour, shine during peak hours, usually between 2 and 3, many meteors appear from the constellation Gemini, but they should be able to see the sky. If the Wirtanen the shower, to 30 meteors per hour in the constellation Pisces