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Keyword: Geminids
![Болид из потока Геминиды над горой Баланг](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/12/17/0001328388/GeminidMtBalang_wu_960.preview.jpg)
16.12.2014
This was a sky to remember. While viewing the Geminids meteor shower a few days ago, a bright fireball was captured over Mt. Balang, China with particularly picturesque surroundings. In the foreground, a sea of light clouds slowly floated between dark mountain peaks.
![Юпитер и Геминиды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/28/0001915356/G0030446_1100.preview.jpg)
28.12.2023
For a brief moment, this brilliant fireball meteor outshone Jupiter in planet Earth's night. The serendipitous image was captured while hunting meteors under cold Canadian skies with a camera in timelapse mode on December 14, near the peak of the Geminid meteor shower.
![Фаэтон и его потомство](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/23/0001394759/MSato_Phaethon-and-Geminids-1100.preview.jpg)
23.12.2017
Based on its well-measured orbit, 3200 Phaethon (sounds like FAY-eh-thon) is recognized as the source of the meteroid stream responsible for the annual Geminid meteor shower. Even though most meteor showers' parents are comets, 3200 Phaethon is a known and closely tracked near-Earth asteroid with a 1.4 year orbital period.
![Северные Геминиды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/15/0001394216/GeminidsYinHao1024.preview.jpg)
15.12.2017
Earth's annual Geminid meteor shower did not disappoint as our fair planet plowed through dust from active asteroid 3200 Phaethon. Captured in this northern hemisphere nightscape, the meteors stream away from the shower's radiant in Gemini.
![Зимний дождь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/17/0001394344/JackFusco_JasperGeminids1024.preview.jpg)
16.12.2017
Four Geminids flash through northern skies in this wintry night skyscape. The bright fireball and 3 fainter meteors were captured in a single 10 second exposure, near the peak of December's Geminid meteor shower.
![Метеоры из Близнецов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/22/0001394643/GeminidMeteorShowerOverChina-Dai1024.preview.jpg)
22.12.2017
From dark skies above Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, meteors rain down on a wintry landscape in this beautiful composited night scene. The 48 meteors are part of last week's annual Geminid meteor shower.
![Болид в Арктике](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/25/0001394918/ArcticGeminid_Sutie_1080.preview.jpg)
25.12.2017
Something very bright suddenly lit up the arctic -- what was it? The original idea was to take a series of aurora images that could be made into a time-lapse video. But when night suddenly turned into day, the astrophotographer quickly realized that he was seeing something even more spectacular.
![Геминиды и Рукавицы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/12/25/0001865173/J7A6402-Edit-copy-sharpened1024.preview.jpg)
25.12.2022
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon's annual gift to planet Earth always arrives in December. Otherwise known as the Geminid meteor shower, the source of the meteroid stream is dust shed along the orbit of the mysterious asteroid.
![Геминиды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/12/16/0001863294/GeminidoverBluemoonvalley-1024.preview.jpg)
16.12.2022
Returning from beyond the Moon, on December 11 the Orion spacecraft entered Earth's atmosphere at almost 11 kilometers per second. That's half the speed of the grain of dust that created this long fireball meteor when it entered the atmosphere on December 13, near the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower.
![Геминиды над китайским озером Нианху](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/17/0001914587/Geminids_Hongyang_1080.preview.jpg)
17.12.2023
Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Gemini. That is why the major meteor shower in December is known as the Geminids -- because shower meteors all appear to come from a radiant toward Gemini.
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