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I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today, you'll learn when you can catch the Geminiid meteor shower this month and why

it's unique. Why jet lag is worse when you travel

east and research into what caused the Earth's last ice age.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

December is here and that means so is the geminid meteor shower.

Not only is it a bright clear meteor shower but it's also got a cool backstory.

Ready to mark your calendar?

This year which is 2018 in case you're hearing this later, they'll peak around late night on December 13th and early morning of December 14th, right?

Right. So for some background, most meteor showers are named after the constellation they appear to come from.

The Perseids appear in Perseus, for instance, and the Leonids appear in Leo.

The Jemenids look like they originate from Gemini. They don't, of course, they just appear at the place in the

sky where Gemini happens to be. In reality, they come from an asteroid called 3200 Phaeton.

That's unusual since most meteor showers come from debris flying off of the tails of comets.

Asteroids don't usually have much debris to leave behind, but 3200 Phaeton is crumblier than most.

Scientists don't know why that is. Some think maybe it collided

with something in the past. Others think it's because its yearly path takes it so close to the

sun that the temperatures cause it to fracture. In any case, the rocky crumbs that leaves behind fly into Earth's atmosphere at a screaming 80,000 miles per hour,

heating up and vaporizing in bright streaks of light.

Thanks to their unusual origin,

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