ScienceCasts: Embers from a Rock Comet: The 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower
The 2012 Geminid Meteor Shower
Kenneth Brandon/NASA
Earth is passing through a stream of debris from “rock comet” 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Forecasters expect as many as 120 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Dec. 13-14.
Check out NASA’s Geminid Meteor Shower page.
http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/geminids_2014.html
