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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:47:00 -0600
Subject: A flurry of meteors, a solar eclipse, a bright asteroid, and maybe ...
auroras
To: SpaceWeather.com <spaceweather@lists.spaceweather.com>
From: SpaceWeather.com <spaceweather@lists.spaceweather.com>
Space Weather News for Dec. 13, 2001
http://www.spaceweather.com
The days ahead are good ones for sky watchers.
First, the annual Geminid meteor shower -- one of the year's best -- peaks
Thursday night and Friday morning (Dec. 13th and 14th). If predictions are
correct, as many as 100 shooting stars each hour will stream out of the
constellation Gemini.
Then, on Friday, Dec. 14th, the Moon will glide in front of the Sun for a
solar eclipse visible from Hawaii and much of the Americas.
After sunset on Friday and again on Saturday, Dec. 15th, high-latitude sky
watchers should be alert for possible Northern Lights triggered by recent
solar eruptions.
And finally, on Dec. 15th and Sunday, Dec. 16th, an unusually big and
bright near-Earth asteroid named 1998 WT24 will race across northern
skies. Amateur astronomers can see the approximately 9th-magnitude object
using modest backyard telescopes.
Visit SpaceWeather.com for observing tips and more information.
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