SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 13 (IRIN)
The Museum of Science and Cosmos of the Cabildo of Tenerife has introduced a new work of his ‘Cosmocrónicas’ digital section entitled ‘The Geminids, the best rain of the year’.
According to the Corporation island in a press release, it addresses how this weekend the best shower of shooting stars of the year is expected, while its author, Oswaldo Gonzalez, astrophysicist and head of Teaching Museum, recalled that the Geminids, is a recurring rain in mid- December, usually cross the sky.
He also noted that, normally, a shower of shooting stars is related to the left by a comet near Earth orbit particles and Earth sometime year passes, producing a disintegration of them, to penetrate the atmosphere at very high speeds.
The insular astrophysicist added that in the case of the Geminids, whose radiant is in front of the constellation Gemini, the parent body of such particles is the asteroid Phaeton probably an extinct comet whose particles were projected for many centuries.
In this case, Gemini is already visible from early in the evening, leaving on the east horizon from 20.30, so whether it could be a meteor. Thus, the higher is Gemini on the horizon, the more meteors can see, reaching seen about a hundred of them per hour, at midnight, in a dark sky.
Finally, the Cabildo He said this year the Moon waning Sunday [14th] bother with their brightness in the observation from its output over the horizon, which will take place at 00.45 hours.
(EuropaPress)
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