Will 2023’s Geminids be the best of all-time?

<p>Every year, no matter what else is occurring on Earth or in the heavens, you can rely on two meteor showers putting on a show: August&rsquo;s Perseids and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminids" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">December&rsquo;s Geminids</a>. When the Moon isn&rsquo;t out and sky conditions are favorable, the peaks of both of these meteor showers can lead to skywatchers all over the world seeing a hundred or more meteors every hour, making them two of the most reliable night sky events that recur annually. The reason is simple and straightforward: as volatile-rich bodies travel through the Solar System, they outgas and fragment when they get too close to the Sun, and the parent bodies of both the Perseids and Geminids have been stretched out into dense debris streams that, when Earth plows through them, create a spectacular, meteoric show.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/will-2023s-geminids-be-the-best-of-all-time-9de15f09958e"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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