Meteor Shower of 2007

What could be the best meteor display of the year will reach
its peak on the night of December 13th and 14th 2007.

Here is
what astronomers David Levy and Stephen Edberg have written of the annual Geminid
Meteor Shower: “If you have not seen a mighty Geminid fireball arcing
gracefully across an expanse of sky, then you have not seen a meteor.”

Generally
speaking, depending on your location, Gemini begins to come up above the
east-northeast horizon right around the time evening twilight is coming to an
end. So you might catch sight of a few early Geminids as soon as the sky gets
dark.

There is a
fair chance of perhaps catching sight of some “Earth-grazing”
meteors. Earth grazers are long, bright shooting stars that streak overhead
from a point near to even just below the horizon. Such meteors are so
distinctive because they follow long paths nearly parallel to our atmosphere.

The Geminids begin to appear noticeably more numerous in the
hours after 10 p.m. local time, because the shower’s radiant is already fairly
high in the eastern sky by then. The best views, however, come around 2 a.m.,
when their radiant point will be passing very nearly overhead.

Read more at article source: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/071207-ns-geminids.html