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Geminids Meteor Shower
December 20 , 2020
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- It is believed to be the strongest of the year.
- They are unique because their origin does not lie at a comet.
- Its origin is believed to be an asteroid or an extinct comet named as 3200 Phaethon.
- Soon after the Geminids, viewers in the northern hemisphere can expect to see the Ursids meteor shower.
- However, the rate of Ursids is much less than Geminids.
- Meteors are bits of rock and ice that are ejected from comets as they manoeuvre around their orbits around the sun.
- Meteor showers are witnessed when Earth passes through the trail of debris left behind by a comet or an asteroid.
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