Geminid Meteor Shower 2018: Time, Date and Forecast For Year’s Best Shooting Star Display PUBLISH SATURDAY 5AM

Geminid Meteor Shower 2018: Time, Date and Forecast For Year’s Best Shooting Star Display PUBLISH SATURDAY 5AM

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The Geminid meteor shower—one of the best and most reliable displays of the year—will peak on 13 and 14 December. Up to 100 meteors per hour could be visible, and with the moon in its first quarter, this year’s shower should be particularly impressive.

Bill Cook, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office, told Newsweek: “Sky watchers are encouraged to go out after moon set at 10:30PM [on the 13 December]; that way there will be no moonlight to wash out the fainter meteors.