Geminids Meteor Shower

However the first showers were not noteworthy with only 10 20 meteors seen per hour.
Geminids meteor shower. The geminids are often bright and intensely colored. The geminids first began appearing in the mid 1800s. In 2020 the geminids will peak on the night between dec 13 14.
The geminid meteor shower was at first very modest but it now delivers one to two meteors a minute. The geminid meteor shower always a highlight of the meteor year is expected to peak on the night of december 13 14 sunday evening until dawn monday. The famous geminid meteor shower will sling bright shooting stars this winter though a just past full moon will make all but the brightest hard to see.
Over 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the peak of the geminid meteor shower in 2014. The best meteor showers occur when the moon is absent or mostly absent. The geminids are a prolific meteor shower caused by the object 3200 phaethon which is thought to be a palladian asteroid with a rock comet orbit.
Note that the meteor shower dates do not change much from year to year though the peak of a shower may vary by a day or two. 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 perseid meteor shower and the geminid meteor shower.
The geminids did not start out that way. Check our moon phase calendar to find out the phase of the moon during this year s geminid meteor shower. The geminid meteor shower.
The shower will peak on dec. The shower owes its name to the constellation gemini. 2020 meteor showers calendar.