المملكة: The Saudi sky is on a date tomorrow with Geminid meteors… and this is the best time for observation
Attest and tomorrow evening "" For the year 2025, and extends during the hours before sunrise on Sunday, December 14.
This shower is one of the most prominent annual meteor showers, and is expected to present a bright display in the sky.
Peak of the Geminid meteors
The President of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, Majed Abu Zahra, explained that although the year 2025 is not completely ideal for viewing the Geminid meteors due to the appearance of the moon late at night, which may obscure some of the meteors. Faint, but the density of the Geminid meteors makes them a good observation experience.
The best time for observation will be after midnight, focusing on the northeastern horizon from a dark place far from city lights.
Meteor showers
He revealed that the source of the Geminid meteors is usually comets, but the Geminid meteors come from the rocky asteroid 3200 Phaethon, also known as "Rocky comet"
Phaethon comes very close to the sun, at a distance of about 21 million kilometers, and its rocky surfaces heat up and release dust, which produces Geminid meteors.
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