Geminid Meteor Showers Promise A Spectacular Show This Year

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Geminids are one of the best meteor showers (Credit: Arman Alcordo Jr./ Pexels/ CC-BY-SA-2.0)

There are over 30 meteor showers throughout the year. But most of them 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" are also easier to see because they go through the skies at about 22 miles (35 km) per second. This is almost half the speed of the Perseid meteors, which zip past at 37 miles (60 km) per second.

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