[MIham] Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight

[Frank]

*Space Weather News for Dec. 13, 2015*
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*GEMINID METEOR SHOWER:* The annual Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight, 
Dec. 13-14, as Earth passes through a stream of gravelly debris from 
"rock comet"  3200 Phaethon. Dark-sky observers in both hemispheres 
could see as many as 120 meteors per hour during the dark hours between 
local midnight and sunrise on Dec. 14th. Last night, Dec. 12-13, NASA's 
all-sky meteor network detected 15 Geminid fireballs over the USA. That 
number will surely increase tonight when the shower peaks. Visit 
Spaceweather.com 
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for more information.

*MAGNETIC STORM ON A COMET: *Earth isn't the only place with geomagnetic 
storms. Comets can have them, too. Such a storm appears to be underway 
in the sinuous blue ion tail of Comet Catalina (C/2013 US10).  Observers 
with backyard telescopes are monitoring the event with photos 
highlighted on today's edition of Spaceweather.com 
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