Do you want to view some meteors? December 7th is the start of the Geminids Meteor Shower of 2008. There should be plenty of activity in our skies this month. Take a look at the Meteor Shower Schedule there is the Geminids Meteor Shower, which are a major meteor shower and six other minor meteor [...]
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Meteor Shower December 2008
The most distinguished Meteor Shower of December 2008 is the Geminids. This shower was discovered in 1862 and bewildered astronomers for over a century because they could not hit upon a parent comet accountable for the shower. More than one hundred years later in 1983, after a close encounter with our world, astronomers exposed the [...]
Meteor Shower December 2008
The Meteor Shower December 2008 activity will consist of seven special meteor streams. There will be an abundance of viewing opportunities for novice meteor shower viewing as well as more experienced meteor shower enthusiasts. Last month the moon was an immense problem for viewing and regrettably December may fall to the moon’s wrath again. The [...]
Meteor Shower December 2008
The Geminids Meteor Shower of December 2008 is a unique meteor shower because they are associated with an asteroid not a comet like other meteor showers that I have discussed on the site. The asteroid is named 3200 Phaethon, and some would argue that the entity is actually a comet in its final stages of [...]
