Things Worth Noting
The Geminids meteor shower is one of the most reliable and dazzling annual sky events, peaking each December. Unlike most meteor showers that come from comets, the Geminids originate from asteroid 3200 Phaethon, which sheds debris as it heats up near the Sun. Earth passes through this debris stream each year, producing slow, bright meteors […]
A meteor, often called a shooting star, is the bright streak of light when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere, heating to incandescence in the mesosphere at 76-100 km altitudes. Meteoroids, small rocky or metallic bodies from comets or asteroids, create this glow through friction and ablation. Surviving fragments become meteorites, classified as chondrites, achondrites, iron, […]