The Geminids offer one of the best annual opportunities to spot a meteor shower if stargazers know where and when to look.
"Rich in green-colored fireballs, the Geminids are the only shower I will brave cold December nights to see," said Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, located at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
NASA adds that because the Geminids, which get their names from the fact that they appear brightest from the direction of the constellation Gemini, start at around 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., it's a great opportunity for younger skywatchers to catch a meteor shower.Whereas most other meteor showers experienced as Earth orbits the sun are dust and particles left behind by comets as they pass our star, the Geminids possibly arise from the debris shed by an asteroid.
NASA says that regardless of the nature of Phaethon, it creates a denser cluster of debris than those that lead to other meteor showers.can get as deep into the atmosphere of Earth as just 29 miles above its surface. The fragments that make up most of the other less dense meteor showers burn up much higher in Earth's atmosphere, making them less visible.
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