Geminid Meteor Shower: Last and Most Intense Meteor Shower of 2012 Peaks Tonight
The most reliable meteor shower of the year, the Geminids, is on its way — with no moon to obscure the show.
The Geminid meteor shower, the final major meteor shower of 2012, is what NASA calls the most intense of the year and will peak overnight Dec. 13 to 14. If you liked the Perseids meteor shower in August, you should love this show. 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. NASA reports that the Geminids are a relatively young meteor shower, with the first sightings occurring in the 1830s with rates of about 20 per hour. And this meteor shower defies explanation, according to NASA astroner Bill Cooke. Most meteor showers come from comets, which spew meteoroids for a night of "shooting stars." The …
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