Jupiter and the Geminid

For a brief moment, this perfect fireball meteor outshone Jupiter in planet Earth’s night. The serendipitous advise used to be captured while hunting meteors below frigid Canadian skies with a digicam in timelapse mode on December 14, arrive the height of the Geminid meteor bathe. The Geminid meteor bathe, asteroid 3200 Phaethon’s annual gift, repeatedly arrives in December. Grime shed alongside the orbit of the mysterious asteroid causes the meteor streaks, as the vaporizing grains plow via our comely planet’s upper ambiance at 22 kilometers per 2d. Of direction Geminid bathe meteors appear to radiate from some extent in the constellation of the Twins. That is below and left of this physique. With shining Jupiter on the licensed, additionally in the December night skyview are the Pleiades and Hyades vast name clusters.