Space Weather News for Dec. 13, 2015
http://spaceweather.com
 
GEMINID METEOR SHOWER: The annual Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight, Dec.
13-14, as Earth passes through a stream of gravelly debris from "rock comet"
3200 Phaethon. Dark-sky observers in both hemispheres could see as many as 120
meteors per hour during the dark hours between local midnight and sunrise on
Dec. 14th. Last night, Dec. 12-13, NASA's all-sky meteor network detected 15
Geminid fireballs over the USA. That number will surely increase tonight when
the shower peaks. Visit Spaceweather.com for more information.
 
MAGNETIC STORM ON A COMET: Earth isn't the only place with geomagnetic storms.
Comets can have them, too. Such a storm appears to be underway in the sinuous
blue ion tail of Comet Catalina (C/2013 US10).  Observers with backyard
telescopes are monitoring the event with photos highlighted on today's edition
of Spaceweather.com
 
 
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Regards,
 
Roger

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