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• Geminid meteor streaking from radiant in Gemini, Dec. ...

• Geminid Meteor, Polaris, and Saguaro Cactus.
• Mid-December of each year brings us the Geminid meteor shower, which typically produces meteors that are numerous, bright, and of medium speed. ... Under ideal conditions (far from city lights, with no moon in the sky and an unobstructed view), as many as 100 Geminid meteors per hour may be visible! The flashes of light we see -- appearing to radiate from the constellation Gemini -- are the collision of our atmosphere with particles probably left behind by 3200 Phaeton, an Earth-crossing asteroid that may be a burned-out comet.

• Geminid Observing Tips.
• Geminid meteors appear to stream out of the constellation Gemini -- hence the name "Geminids. ...
• The source of the Geminid meteoroid stream is a curious object named 3200 Phaethon. ...
• Geminid meteoroids hit Earth's atmosphere traveling approximately 35 km/s or 78,000 mph. ...
• Geminid meteors fly out of a point in the sky (called "the radiant") near the star Castor in the constellation Gemini. ...
• 13th will be a good time for sky watchers in Europe, North America, northern Africa, and western Asia to spot a few Geminid Earthgrazers. ...
• The Geminid radiant is denoted by a red dot.
• Above: The northern sky as viewed from South Africa on the date of the 2001 Geminid meteor shower. The Geminid radiant, about 30 degrees above the horizon, is denoted by a red dot.
• Observers in North America, Europe and western Asia are favored for Geminid Earthgrazers just after local sunset on Dec. ...

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• Geminid Main • Observing.
• Geminid History.
• " During the beginning of the 20th century, the hourly rate of the Geminid stream was being reported as 15 to 30 per hour---with the average being over 20.
• One of the most complete studies of the average magnitude of the Geminid shower was conducted in 1982, by George H. ...
• Geminid Magnitudes and Trains.
• Despite Plavec's calculations, the fate of the Geminid stream was still considered a matter that was up for grabs. ...
• Hughes published a paper entitled, "The evolution of the orbit of the Geminid meteor stream. ...
• Since the orbit of the Geminid stream passed through the asteroid belt, the British researchers looked for an asteroid that may periodically pass near the stream's orbit. ... 0003 AU from the Geminid orbit. ...
• "At the present time the Geminid shower slowly builds up to maximum rate and then drops away from maximum relatively sharply. ... " The proposed model indicated Earth's orbit would intersect the Geminid stream only between 1800 and 2100. ...
• A major question concerning the Geminid stream involves its origin. ... In 1950, Plavec theorized about the Geminid stream's parent body and pointed out that the "existence of a parent comet in such a short-period orbit, even in the past, seems to be not very probable. ... " Concerning a possible candidate for the parabolic comet mentioned, Plavec considered the great comet of 1680 (after a suggestion made in 1931 by Maltzev) and concluded that the close approach of the two orbits at a point slightly beyond the Geminid perihelion point, made a possible connection impossible to exclude.
• Whipple that this asteroid possessed an orbit almost identical to that of the Geminid meteor stream. ... The excitement of having found the parent body of the Geminid stream was almost dwarfed by another realization, this was the first time an asteroid had been definitely linked to a meteor shower and it subsequently serves as an important link between comets and meteor streams.

• Title: The evolution of the orbit of the Geminid meteor stream Authors: FOX, K. ... Publication Date: 07/1982 Origin: STI Category: Astronomy NASA/STI Keywords: GEMINID METEOROIDS, GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS, ORBIT CALCULATION, ORBIT PERTURBATION, PLANETARY GRAVITATION, APHELIONS, METEOROID SHOWERS, ORBITAL ELEMENTS, ORBITAL MECHANICS, PERIHELIONS, PERIODIC VARIATIONS, TIME DEPENDENCE Bibliographic Code: 1982MNRAS. ...

• A Geminid From Gemini .
• Geminid meteors can be seen streaking away from the constellation of Gemini, as depicted in the above all-sky photograph. The origin of the Geminid meteors is somewhat uncertain but thought to be small bits broken off the unusual asteroid 3200 Phaetheon. ...

• The 2004 Geminid Meteor Gallery.
• This Geminid meteor was very bright and its debris stood plastered in the sky for several seconds. ...
• A brilliant Geminid appears to breaking up the perpetual tiff between Orion and Taurus. ...
• Geminid Fireball taken with a Olympus 4040Z camera @f1. ...
• I was just wraping up an excellent night of imaging and thought I would get a shot of the Zodiacal light, when this nice Geminid stole the scene. ...
• A bright Geminid (during a very active display) caught on one frame of a 275-frame digital time lapse movie (covering 5 hours of sky motion) taken with a tripod-mounted Canon Digital Rebel DSLR, using an intervalometer timer. ...
• One Geminid between some cloud holes. ...

• Tuesday, 14 December, 1999, 10:19 GMT Geminid meteor shower peaks.
• The peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower delivered over 100 shooting stars per hour in the early hours of 14 December. ...
• Its orbital match with the Geminid meteors is so close, however, that it must be the source of the meteors. ...
• Estimates of the density of the Geminid meteoroids are between one and two grams per cubic centimetre. ...
• Geminid meteors appear to emanate from the constellation Gemini and can be seen any time after 2200 local time, when the constellation is well above the horizon. The rate increases greatly after midnight when the local sky is pointing directly into the Geminid meteoroid stream. ...

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