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Sky watchers are gearing up to view the annual Geminid meteor shower, which astronomers consider one of the strongest and most reliable of the 30 or so
meteor showers that occur each year. This year the Geminids peak late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning—though light from a waning gibbous moon is expected to wash out fainter meteors.
“The moon’s a bummer,” said Bill Cooke, lead astronomer for the Meteoroid Environment Office at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The moon will be about 75% illuminated on the night of the shower’s peak, he added.
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