Geminids.

The peak night of the 2012 Geminid meteor shower should be from late evening tonight (Thursday, December 13) until dawn tomorrow (Friday, December 14). As a general rule, the shower intensifies after midnight and produces the greatest number of meteors for a few hours, centered around 2 a.m. That’s true no matter where you are around the globe. The Geminids are a reliable and prolific shower, offering perhaps 50 meteors per hour in a dark sky. This year, NASA experts are suggesting the rates might be as high as 100 meteors per hour at the peak. Plus there’s a new meteor shower that might coincide with the Geminids.

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