2023-12-12 21:32:05
Geminids are tiny pieces of rock debris (pea-sized grains of sand). They come to us from a small asteroid called Phaethon. “Over centuries, these particles spread along the asteroid’s orbit to form a moving ‘river of rubble’ hundreds of millions of kilometers long. Earth’s annual orbit around the Sun carries us through this stream of particles every mid-December“, continued l’ESA.
The meteor shower comes from a point in the constellation Gemini, close to the stars Castor and Pollux. You can therefore look in this direction but the best way to see it will be to turn towards the darkest part of the sky, the least lit both by human activity and by the stars. The Moon, for its part, has made a good effort this year since we will be at “The New Moon” so it will practically not be visible in the sky. All we have to do is keep our fingers crossed that the clouds aren’t too present.
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