The Geminid Meteor Shower is a meteor shower that occurs every year in mid December. This is one of the most active and consistently active meteor showers. If you have good viewing conditions you could see about 50 meteors per hour. Unfortunately for us, the midwest will have poor viewing conditions because of the cloud cover we'll have tonight.
This shower is called the Geminid Meteor shower because the meteors look to originate from the Gemini constellation. The debris field the Earth passes into is from an extinct comet called the 3200
Phaethon. This comet lost it's ice because of too many close trips near the sun. This meteor shower has been seen from Earth since the Civil War in the 19th Century.
Even though we are under poor viewing conditions for the meteor shower you can watch a live stream through
NASA.
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