GEMINID METEOR SHOWER: Mark your calendar: The annual Geminid meteor shower peaks this year on Dec. 14th when dark-sky observers around the world could see as many as 120 meteors per hour. The source of the display is “rock comet” 3200 Phaethon. As November comes to a close, Earth is entering the outskirts of 3200 Phaethon’s debris stream, and this is causing some Geminids to appear weeks ahead of peak night. The first Geminid fireball of the season was detected on Nov. 26th by NASA’s network of all-sky meteor cameras.

from:    spaceweather .com