Superb meteor shower after hours!

World – Science and Technology

The engineer Mohamed Shaukat Odeh, director of the International Center for Astronomy, said the annual fog of the twin towers, which will take place on December 14, is the best, surpbading the annual meteorite rain. August.

"The twins have the biggest meteors among the other meteor showers, and they are slow to show for a longer time, with a speed of 35 km per second," said Shaukat.

This year, the twin towers will take place at 4:30 pm EDT. For the western world, the night of December 13-14 is the most appropriate time to watch for meteors, while the night of December 14-15 is the best for the eastern world.

In the Arab region and the center of the world, anyone interested should calculate the peak date according to the local time and choose the night closest to the peak date.

Twins

Shaukat Odeh, also a member of the International Meteorological Organization, said that according to calculations there should be about 60 to 120 twin peaks at rush hour, adding that "this figure can not be seen only in a perfectly organized place, away from urban lighting ".

"Those interested in seeing these meteors should watch from the darkness and look at the sky around 8 pm Meteors increase from time to time, until they grow significantly after midnight and at night. # 39; dawn ".

The twin meteors are named because all the meteors seem to come from a fictional point of the group of twins (or Gemini, as the astrologers call it), caused by an asteroid named Phithon.

On December 14 of each year, as the Earth gets closer to the orbit of the asteroid, these dusty particles are attracted to the Earth and enter the atmosphere. The atmosphere is intertwined and formed by observed meteors.