Tomorrow is the peak of the heaviest meteor shower of the year

According to Ekhtaz Online, citing Tasnim, the Gemini meteor shower in the third week of December 1402 should be considered the most important astronomical event of this week, and the lack of moonlight also helps to make the most fruitful meteor shower of the year more exciting.

In the third week of Azar 1402, the phase of the moon reaches the end of its one-month period, and therefore it will not have a noticeable presence in the sky. Moonlight also helps to observe a spectacular event, the Gemini 1402 meteor shower.

This year’s Gemini meteor shower has started around December 16, and the end of the week, Thursday night, December 23, at the peak time and in the best conditions, the number of meteors per hour, or more precisely, the hourly song of its head, is predicted to be up to 150 meteors. Therefore, if the weather conditions help, you can witness one of the most spectacular fireworks in the night sky.

This shower is one of the few meteor shower that is not caused by a comet and is an asteroid. The origin of this shower is the asteroid Phaeton 3200, which according to some astronomers is considered to be a type of body called a silent comet. The meteors of this shower have a large diameter, and for this reason, this shower has many bright meteors and there are many fireballs among them.

The average speed of the meteors of this shower compared to the planet earth during the peak time of the meteor shower is usually about 35 km/h, which is a small speed for a large meteor shower. Its perihelion times with the Sun are only about 21,000.0 km, which is less than half the average distance of the planet Mercury with the Sun.

You don’t need to look at the focal point of the shower to see meteors.

You don’t have to look in just one direction to enjoy watching meteors or try to find the focal point of the shower to see more meteors. Meteors will appear all over the sky. However, the focal point can be interesting.

A meteor shower is a celestial phenomenon in the night sky that occurs when the planet Earth passes through a mass of particles in space called meteors. During the occurrence of this event, a large number of meteorites burn in the earth’s atmosphere. Every meteor shower occurs in a specific area of ​​the sky and this place is called the center of the shower.

The direction of movement of meteors is different, but the extension of their path leads to the focus of the event. Because of the three-dimensional perspective, all meteors coming from the same direction appear to be emitted from the same point.