Tonight you can see meteors

Tonight the Universe will give us an extraordinary spectacle. In the early hours of tomorrow, or after midnight tonight, the Geminid of Meteora will reach the climate, in the solar system very close to us, actually in our system.

Meteors burn between 80 and 120 miles [80 km] above our heads. This annual phenomenon for every year is receiving greater attention. There are about 120 hours to burn tonight.

For those of our planet living in the Northern Hemisphere, the burning of meteors will appear in the southwest part of the sky. Southern hemisphere, down northwest. Although the peak of rainfall is in the early hours of the morning, the meteors will be seen all night long.

This year the conditions to see this phenomenon are very good, because the moon will rise shortly before dawn. If the light of the moon does not stumble, even the weakest meteors can easily be seen.

Meteors are small pieces of dust that hit our planet and burn in the atmosphere. The annual stream of meteors occurs when the Earth enters the currents of cosmic dust. Each of the meteors at one stage was part of the tail of the icy comets. So for example, the Orionid Line of meteors that occurred in the month of October came from dust caused by the famous Halley comet.

While the Geminids are more unusual in terms because the dust years from very rare objects known as the rock “comsets of” This specific rock comet is an asteroid called Phaethon. It dives toward the sun every 523 days.

Extreme heat breaks the surface of Phaethon. Pieces of which are blown to the surface by the pressure of sunlight.

Phaethon had been discovered in 1983 and is five miles [5 km] in diameter.