Written by: Ramy Mohy El-Din Friday, December 15, 2023 12:41 PM
Dr. Gad Al-Qadi, head of the National Institute for Astronomical Research, said that Egypt experiences a number of meteor showers throughout the day, varying in number and color depending on the source from which they came, stressing that meteor showers do not have harmful effects on the planet Earth or life on it. When they penetrate… Small grains of sand that penetrate the atmosphere disappear and do not reach the ground as luminous objects and do not cause ignition.
Al-Qadi added, in a telephone conversation with the journalist Mohamed Abdo, presenter of the “Good Morning Egypt” program, broadcast on the Egyptian Channel One and the Egyptian satellite channel, presented by the journalist Mohamed Abdo: “The current meteor shower is called the Geminid meteor shower, as it is active in the period from 7 to December 17 and its peak was on December 13 and 14.”
He continued: “It was called the Geminid meteor shower because it comes from the constellation Gemini. It has another name, which is Gemini. It is active at this time because that constellation is closer to the Earth, and therefore its dust falls to the Earth in the form of meteors.”
He explained: “They are called showers because their number is as large as rain showers, and they are among the most distinguished meteor showers because their average is estimated at about 120 meteors per hour.”
