I just saw 7 meteors from the Geminid meteor shower! Go Look!

[scubadude]

Not bad for suburban chicago early on in the night. In case you aren't familiar with it, a Geminid is a meteor emanating from the constellation Gemini. This is the best meteor shower of the year for the northern hemisphere. If you were able to see all of the sky you would see about 1 meteor per minute. The persieds in August are the next best, but they have been decreasing in recent years.

I spent about a half hour on the porch of my building. Of course my wife walks out and sees the best one in about a minute then leaves, it's cold out there in the wind!

Here's a link with more info: www.spaceweather.com

Clear skies,

Scuba

[Monkeyman]

1. Darien IL clear saw one

[scubadude]

2. Hey, that's not far from me! As a matter of fact

I was looking over Darien when I saw a number of them!

Best,

Scuba

[Indiana_Dem]

3. Clear here in North Central Indiana--saw a couple!

There seems to be one real high in the atmosphere above our house moving very slowly and hasn't burned up--at least I think.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Fog, fog, fog in southern MD. nt

[MuseRider]

5. Fiasco here.

I am staying out at my farm waiting on a horse transport and my husband drove all the way out here excited as can be about them and it clouded over as he got out of the car. He is so bummed that he just shook his head and got back in the car and left. Poor guy, he looks forward to these occurrences.

Have fun everyone in the clear, I am going to sleep so have a good night spotting meteors.

[eleny]

7. Cloudyish here in Colorado, too

Where it's rarely cloudy!

[leftofthedial]

6. I've seen a bunch of shooting stars the last week

but none tonight. Too many clouds.

[wildflowergardener]

8. direction?

Is there any particular direction you should be looking (besides up?) I'm in Missouri.

Meg

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Rocks from the sky? Next you'll try to tell me I'm related to a monkey.

The Earth is flat, and it's 6,000 years old. Jesus says so.

[Lex]

10. Thin clouds here in central NC but we still saw 3 nice ones

in about a 20 minute period of time.

:hi:

[zreosumgame]

11. yes, yes but the important question is

how can a Clinton be blamed for them? FAUX wants to know!


:silly:

[Mojorabbit]

12. I went out and saw

12 in a few minutes in Orlando!

[Stargazer99]

13. How lucky you are! We here in Washington State have almost

a permanet cloud state, but we see the metor showers in August, just beautiful.

[bananas]

14. I just saw 4 in the last 10-15 minutes

I forgot about the meteor shower - went outside and saw one zip by!
So then I watched for a little while and saw 3 more.