Get Ready For The Geminid Meteor Shower Next Week

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The Geminid Meteor Shower will peak on December 13 and 14, 2024 (Credit: Jeff Sullivan/ CC-BY-SA-2.0/ Flickr)

With Christmas just around the corner, your neighborhood is likely aglow with beautiful lights. But those displays pale in comparison to nature's dazzling light show — the Geminids. Nicknamed the "900-pound gorilla of meteor showers" by NASA, the Geminids outshine others with dust streams that are 5 to 500 times more massive. The "shooting stars" are also easier to spot because they travel through the skies at about 22 miles (35 km) per second. This is about half the speed of the Perseid meteors, which zip by at about 37 miles (60 km) per second every year in August.

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