INDOZONE.ID – The Geminid Meteor Shower is a meteor shower that occurs in the Gemini Constellation which occurs at the start of winter and peaks in mid-December.
In contrast to most meteor showers experienced by Earth – where the material carried is comets, the Geminid meteor shower is the result of an asteroid named 3200 Phaethon.
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon is an asteroid that has experienced a collision with another object in the past, to produce a stream of particles that collided with Earth, creating a meteor shower.
Many astronomers are not sure what type of Phaethon it is. There is a possibility that Phaethon is a dead comet.
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There are also those who say that Phaeton is a new type of object that astronomers are talking about called a comet.
However, Phaeton is a type of celestial body that is considered strange because when Phaeton passes the sun it does not form a comet tail but its spectrum looks like a rocky asteroid.
Meteor shower illustration. (NASA)
In addition, the fragments that break apart to form Geminid meteoroids are also several times denser than comet dust.
According to known records, the Geminid meteor shower is almost 200 years old since the first recorded observation was made.
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However, the first meteor shower did not attract much attention because it only featured 10 – 20 visible meteors every hour.
However, since then, the Geminids have developed into one of the largest meteor showers every year.
Because at its peak, the Geminids will present around 120 meteors that can be seen on earth every hour, with very bright and fast colors and tending to be yellow.
2023-12-15 08:38:00
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