Cloudy where you are? Watch the Geminids Meteor Shower live online

[LongTomH]

NASA Chat: Stay "Up All Night" to Watch the Geminids

The annual Geminid meteor shower will peak on the night of Dec. 13-14, 2013. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke, along with Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw from his team of experts, will be on hand to answer questions via a live web chat on Dec. 13 from 11 p.m. until 3 a.m. EST. A live Ustream feed of the skies over Marshall Space Flight Center will also be embedded on this page on the night of the chat.

The Geminid meteor shower is the most intense meteor shower of the year. It lasts for several days (Dec. 12-16), is rich in fireballs and can be seen from almost any point on Earth. The 2013 peak rate is between 100-120 meteors per hour. The waxing gibbous moon will reduce the rate by half, except for the brief time between moonset (4 a.m. local time) and sunrise.

[Laelth]

1. Nifty. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[KoKo]

2. K&R...probably going to be cloudy here...but, will try

to make the attempt. Thanks for the post!

[2naSalit]

3. It might be cloudy here

and I think I may check in to this web site... thanks for posting about it!!

[bananas]

4. Here's the nasa msfc ustream channel

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc

[Thor_MN]

5. I'm starting to believe that if the Earth were threatened by killer asteroid

all we would need is for me to watch for it. Clouded out here, NASA's feed was overcast, tried the SLOOH site from Chile or whereever it was, didn't see a damn thing.

[bvar22]

6. Thank You!

One of the reasons we moved from the Big City to The Woods of rural Arkansas
was so that we could see the stars again.
We haven't been disappointed.