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Ross Hockham's December Skies:
13/14th December The Geminid meteor shower peaks, but first onto the source of the Geminids....
Most meteor showers are caused by Earth passing through the tail of a comet, well more a dust lane left behind by a comet as it orbits the sun.
The Geminids are slightly different being one of two meteor showers actually caused by an asteroid not a comet, 3200 Phaethon is the cause of this months, The shower reported to measure at around 50-150 an hour radiates from the constellation Gemini,
Phaeton is a ball of rock around 5km which actually comes to within 10.4 million km of Earth on the 16th a few days after the meteor shower peaks, so within viewing range of medium to large scopes it will be seen as a rapidly moving white dot in the sky in the constellation of Andromeda, passing later into the square of Pegasus.
So you can see a cool meteor shower and the ball of rock that causes it.
Most meteor showers are caused by Earth passing through the tail of a comet, well more a dust lane left behind by a comet as it orbits the sun.
The Geminids are slightly different being one of two meteor showers actually caused by an asteroid not a comet, 3200 Phaethon is the cause of this months, The shower reported to measure at around 50-150 an hour radiates from the constellation Gemini,
Phaeton is a ball of rock around 5km which actually comes to within 10.4 million km of Earth on the 16th a few days after the meteor shower peaks, so within viewing range of medium to large scopes it will be seen as a rapidly moving white dot in the sky in the constellation of Andromeda, passing later into the square of Pegasus.
So you can see a cool meteor shower and the ball of rock that causes it.
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