SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 13 December (IRIN) –
Museum of Science and the 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 insular Corporation 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 rain appellant that in mid-December, usually cross the sky.
also noted that normally a shower of shooting stars is related to the left by a comet near Earth orbit particles and the Earth sometime in the 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 lies ahead 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 evening , out on the east horizon from 20.30, so you may already 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 waning Moon in Sunday [14th] bother with their brightness in the observation from its output over the horizon, which will take place at 00.45 hours.
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