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Geminid Meteor Showers Will Light Up The Night Skies On December 13 And 14

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The Geminid meteor showers will peak on December 13 and 14 (Credit: Asim Patel/ CC BY-SA 3.0/ Wikimedia Commons)

Sky watchers are treated to over thirty meteor showers throughout the year. However, most pale in comparison to the Geminids. Nicknamed the "900-pound gorilla of meteor showers" by NASA, they outweigh other dust streams by factors of between 5 to 500! The "shooting stars" have been active since December 4 and will continue until December 17, 2022. But their best showing will be on the night of December 13 into the morning of December 14, 2022, when up to 120 meteors will be flying through the sky every hour.