{"id":9090,"date":"2013-12-06T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2013-05-07T12:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T22:30:51","slug":"geminids-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9090","title":{"rendered":"Geminid Meteor Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geminids\" target=\"_blank\">Geminid<\/a> meteor shower has become one of the most reliable annual meteor showers.  First observed over 150 years ago this is a interesting meteor shower.  The parent body for the Geminids is not a comet, but rather the asteroid 3200 Phaethon.  It is <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2010\/06dec_geminids\/\" target=\"_blank\">somewhat of a mystery<\/a> how this mostly rocky body gives rise to the debris stream needed to generate a meteor shower.  <\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_6190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6190\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6190\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6190\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/LeonidOrion20091117-e1352170673154-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Leonids in Orion\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6190\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of Leonid meteors streak through Orion<\/figcaption><\/figure>The shower peak is predicted for December 14th, at 05:45UT (13Dec 19:45HST).  For viewers in the central Pacific this favors the evening of Dec 13th into the morning of Dec 14th, starting around 8pm as Gemini rises in the east.<\/p>\n<p>While the 2013 Geminids are expected to just as numerous as usual, viewing will be hampered by a bright Moon in the sky.  Full Moon occurs on the 16th, placing peak just a few days before full.  This puts a big, bright Moon in the sky for much of the night.  Certainly the brighter fireballs will be easily visible, but the dim meteors will be lost to the moonlight.  A dedicated observer might make use of the small window of time between moonset at 5:24am and sunrise about 06:50am on the morning of the 14th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=283\">Watching meteors requires no more equipment than your eyes and a dark sky<\/a>, and can be enjoyable for just about anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Geminid meteor shower has become one of the most reliable annual meteor showers. First observed over 150 years ago this is a interesting meteor shower. The parent body for the Geminids is not a comet, but rather the asteroid 3200 Phaethon. It is somewhat of a mystery how this mostly rocky body gives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geminid Meteor Shower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[785,62,165],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}