The Geminid meteor shower, the best meteor shower, is lighting up skies at its peak on the evening of December 13. Best ways to catch the best meteor shower has been revealed.
Meteor Shower Latest News: 3200 Phaethon Asteroid Causes Meteor Showers
Lincolnshire Live reports that 120 meteors every hour grace the Earth's skies. However, only 40 meteors will be seen due to the appearance of the full moon. The dark, rock called 3200 Phaethon asteroid is causing these annual meteor showers as its surface materials break off when it comes closer to the sun.
Meteor Shower Update: Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks On December 13
The Geminid meteor shower is lighting up the skies for nights starting on December 10, 2016, and peaking on December 13, 2016. As meteor showers are named after its origin constellation, the Geminid meteor shower is coined from a point in the Gemini the twins. The Geminid meteor remains bright near the Castor star that is the twin star of Pollux.
The appearance of supermoon will obscure the dimmer meteors of the Geminid meteor shower. However, it still remains as the best meteor shower of the year. It is producing bright, medium-speed meteors with a rate of 80 meteors per hour as the Earth passes through the comet's orbital trail.
Meteor Shower Update: How To Catch Geminid Meteor Shower?
Meteor shower spectators should find a dark field or park such as High Point State Park in Sussex County or Sheep Hill in Boonton, Morris County. They should start looking at the sky between 9:00 P.M. and midnight. In these hours, the meteor showers will be active. They should look at the western sky away from the moon that rises in the eastern sky.
Space also reports that spectators should find for Orion that is the constellation of three stars in the hunter's belt. They can see the Gemini to the right of the Orion. As the meteor showers stream away from its origin, spectators should look slightly away from Gemini to see the Geminid meteor showers with longer tails. Geminid meteor shower allows spectators to see 10 to 15 shooting stars per hour. These can all be viewed with just bare eyes.
