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RE: Geminid meteor shower

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It is 2.30 am on a semi-cloudy night in a paddy field at Ambeshiv Khurd, eight kilometres from Badlapur, and far, far away from the madness of Mumbai city. Four groups of mainly students and a few elders are staring hard at the night sky. Suddenly someone shouts out, cutting through the high-pitched screeching of bats flapping around, "There! I saw one pass through Leo. It was white and as bright as Sirius."

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Dozens of stargazers gathered on Friday night at an isolated location in the Arava Desert to witness the Geminid meteor shower, a spectacular flurry of shooting stars that lit up the night's skies.
During the annual occurrence, thousands of dust or ice particles are visible as they burn on entry to the earth's atmosphere. Meteorites will also be visible tonight, but at a much lesser frequency and intensity.

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A rare celestial event, the Geminid meteor shower, was visible across most of India on Friday night, but sadly the grand annual celestial spectacle could not be seen in Delhi due to a cloudy and foggy sky.

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The Geminid meteor shower visable in Alaska

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Automated results of the Geminids 2007

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Geminids meteor shower live 2006 - Bareket observatory

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This year's Geminids, one of the finest and the most reliable of all annual showers, will peak at 20:30 Nepal Standard Time, December 14th, very convenient for sky watchers in Nepal. This could be the best one this year for Nepal. Keep looking through the night, especially when the Gemini constellation, the radiant of this meteor shower is high in the sky. It should be around

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A new meteor shower is only a few hours away to amaze our eyes and souls! The Geminids meteor shower is to take place Thursday night, December 13, when just after dark we should be able to see the so-called shooting stars in the east-northeast horizon.
According to scientists, it seems that the Geminids represent the most active annual meteor shower; their source is related to 3200 Pheathon, an asteroid-like object thought to be an extinct comet.

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If skies are clear, the Geminid meteor shower should offer great viewing when the annual celestial showcase peaks Thursday night.
A strong showing of shooting stars is expected to begin about 9 p.m., with a possible peak of 30 to 60 meteors per hour between midnight and 2 a.m. Friday.

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The Geminids are not ordinary meteors. While most meteor showers come from comets, Geminids come from an asteroida near-Earth object named 3200 Phaethon.
Asteroids don't normally spew dust into spaceand therein lies the mystery. Where did Phaethon's meteoroids come from?
One possibility is a collision. Maybe it bumped against another asteroid. A collision could have created a cloud of dust and rock that follows Phaethon around in its orbit. Such collisions, however, are not very likely.

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The Geminids can be heard on a regular radio by tuning in to any FM station that doesnt transmit locally.
Meteor showers occur when space debris some as small as a grain of sand travel at high speeds through the earths atmosphere, leaving a streak of light that quickly disappears.

"When a meteor flies through the atmosphere, it leaves an ionisation trail that reflects radio waves."

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