Geminids
What may be the best Meteor Shower this year is set to peak tomorrow late evening.
PhysOrg.com
has the news here:
bq. Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends: the best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night.
It's the Geminids. The best time to look is Monday night, Dec. 13th. Sky watchers who stay outside for a few hours around midnight can expect to see dozens to hundreds of "shooting stars."
Spaceweather
has this to say:
bq. GEMINID METEORS: The Geminid meteor shower is underway. Observers who watched the skies on Saturday night (Dec. 11th) and Sunday morning (Dec 12th) report seeing plenty of faint Geminids and a few bright ones every hour. This bodes well for the Geminid peak on Monday, Dec. 13th.
The shower's peak is broad, which means there might be two good displays: (1) during the dark hours before sunrise on Monday, Dec. 13th, and (2) later the same day during the hours after sunset. If forecasters are correct, Geminids will be most numerous around midnight Dec. 13th-14th
Cool - the sky is overcast right now but if it clears up, Jen and I will be out watching -- we are both Science Geeks...
Posted by DaveH at December 12, 2004 8:24 PM