Keep your heads up for the Geminids!

A Geminid meteor streaks over Monument Valley, Utah, in 2007.
Photograph by Wally Pacholka, TWAN
Photo credit from 
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/25641737.html
AAP members, keep your heads up for the Geminids meteor shower and spread the word so that you and your loved ones may enjoy this magnificent natural event! Watch out for it at the constellation Gemini (at the east, near Orion) between December 12 to 14 at around 10:00 PM onwards. You can also count the meteors that you will see, take photos of you and your family observing the Geminds, pictures of tools and equipment that you used and submit an observation report for our fellow AAP members to appreciate.

Here's a little bit about the Geminids meteor shower from Wikipedia :

The Geminids are a meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid.This would make the Geminids the only meteor shower not originating from a passing comet. The meteors from this shower are slow moving can be seen in December and usually peak around the 13th - 14th of the month, with the date of highest intensity being the morning of the 14th. The shower is thought to be intensifying every year and recent showers have seen 120–160 meteors per hour under optimal conditions, generally around 2am to 3am GMT. Geminids were first observed only 150 years ago, much more recently than other showers such as the Perseids and Leonids.

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