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Geminids
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Geminids: see meteor shower meteor shower, increase in the number of meteors observed in a particular part of the sky. The trails of the meteors of a meteor shower all appear to be traceable back to a single point in the sky, known as the radiant point, or radiant.
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Geminids [′jem·ə·nidz]
(astronomy)
A meteor shower that reaches maximum about December 13.
Geminids 

a meteor shower with a radiant in the Gemini constellation. The shower is first observable in the first half of December and reaches its maximum on December 13-14. The most active of the annually occurring meteor showers, it has a very short period of revolution around the sun (1.7 years). The Geminids were first observed in 1862.
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The Shooting Stars December's shooting stars are the Geminids, appearing at the rate of about 40 to 50 per hour on December 13th-14th.
Poor will's Countryside Almanack for early winter of 2009 by Felker, W.L. / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
With the weather being generally pretty good for the Geminids but ruined by the Moon, where does that leave the score?
Winter observing by Pickard, Roger / Journal of the British Astronomical Association
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