It will be the most intense shower of shooting stars of 2014 that will flood the sky in the night between Saturday and Sunday: it is coming peak Geminid meteors in December that illuminate the nights shorter year.
Starting at 3:00 on Sunday, in the middle of the night, you will count the highest number of shooting stars, up to a hundred per hour. “The Moon will interfere partially because rise in the second half of the night, the one most favorable to the vision of the famous trails,” says astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, head of the Virtual Telescope and scientific curator of the Planetarium of Rome.
The show will still be saved, because “the Geminids are often bright and relatively slow, so – says the expert – should show up in good number. Given that this year’s show the Perseids of August was effectively erased from the Moon, the Geminids have what it takes to be the most abundant meteor shower of 2014 ». You will not need binoculars or telescopes, because the best tool for observing meteors are the eyes: just turn its gaze toward the constellation of Gemini, which will be built to the east in the evening of December 13 and then get up in the sky during the night.
The name Geminids, in fact, derives from the Gemini constellation in which the radiant is located, which is the point from which the meteors appear to come. The Geminids, in particular, meteors are quite unusual, because they are generated by dust from a comet, but dall’asteroide Phaeton 3200, which comes very close to the sun. “The resulting significant warming – adds Masi – might elicit the release of these dusty particles that cross the path of the Earth. ”
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