Big meteor shower Wednesday night (Space.com/CNN)

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By Joe Rao
SPACE.com

(SPACE.com) --
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The Geminid event is known for producing one or two meteors every minute during the peak for viewers with dark skies willing to brave chilly nights.
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But if you are willing to bundle up, late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning will be when the Geminids are predicted to be at their peak.

The Geminids are a very fine winter shower, and usually the most satisfying of all the annual showers, even surpassing the Perseids. Studies of past displays show that this shower has a reputation for being rich both in slow, bright, graceful meteors and fireballs as well as faint meteors, with relatively fewer objects of medium brightness. Many appear yellowish in hue. Some even appear to form jagged or divided paths.
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These medium speed meteors appear to emanate from near the bright star Castor, in the constellation of Gemini, the Twins, hence the name "Geminid."
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Generally speaking, depending on your location, Castor begins to come up above the east-northeast horizon right around the time evening twilight is coming to an end.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/12/12/meteor.shower/index.html

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1. Big meteor fan here - There's only one problem with the Geminids

IT'S FUCKING COLD OUT THERE AT NIGHT!

[eppur_se_muova]

2. The article makes much of that. Yay global warming! :^D

[Der Blaue Engel]

3. It's overcast and rainy here in San Francisco

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