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Jeddah – Harmony:
The president of the Jeddah Astronomical Society, Majid Abu Zahra, said that the skies of Saudi Arabia and the Arab region witnessed the arrival of meteorites for this year's fall peak, Thursday, December 13, 2018 at midnight, in the hours leading up to sunrise on Friday.
At this time of year, the Earth travels around the sun through debris scattered along the orbit of the "Fithion 3200" space object. These debris, no bigger than the grains of sand, collide with the highest atmosphere of our planet at 130 000 km / h and evaporate as a multicolored meteor. .
The monsters are active each year from December 7 to 17, producing up to 120 colorful clouds at a peak, but it is difficult to determine the actual number of meteors, which may be above average or below. Up to field monitoring.
In conjunction with the culmination of the twins, the moon will be in the first quadrature and will settle soon after midnight, leaving the sky dark to allow surveillance during the early hours of the morning.
To monitor the fall of the twins, surveillance should be conducted from a dark place, away from the lights of the cities, "not from home", looking at the horizon is without the need of a telescope or binoculars . The meteors will leave in front of the group of twin stars and will organize with the bright star. Meteors can appear from anywhere in the sky.
Monsters can produce very bright meteors called "fireballs", which are bigger than ordinary hybrids and have no effect on the Earth.
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