The weather is colder and the nights are longer, which makes it a great time to look for “shooting stars.”
And this week is the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower, one of the best shows of the year.
A major meteor shower occurs nearly every month, where we can expect anywhere from five to 150 meteors an hour, under ideal conditions.
And that’s what makes the Geminids so special: in ideal conditions, under dark skies, there could be upward of 100 to 150 meteors an hour.
We get meteor showers when Earth passes through a trail of leftover debris shed from a comet
