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- Geminids
- date : Dec. 12 to 16 (Dec. 14)
- duration : 2.6
- rate : 50/hour
- RA : 7:32
- dec : +32
-
- Slowly improving since 1960, the Geminids
- have knocked the Perseids out of first
- place for overall quality. Bright (ave.
- magnitude of 2.7) and medium in speed,
- this shower comes from a dead comet
- discovered by the IRAS satellite. Most
- Geminid meteors are white, with few
- producing trails. This is one of
- the few showers which is good
- before midnight.
-