{"id":5848,"date":"2025-12-14T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:52:01","slug":"what-are-geminids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-geminids\/","title":{"rendered":"Geminid Meteor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Geminid Meteor Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Geminid meteor shower &#8211; one of the most spectacular in the celestial calendar &#8211; is set to peak this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Geminid Meteor<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Geminid meteor shower is named after the constellation from which the meteors appear to radiate, Gemini.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>peaks during mid-December<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> each year and is considered to be one of the best and most reliable annual meteor showers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Origin:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Unlike most meteor showers that originate from comets, the Geminid stream appears to originate from an <\/span><b>asteroid known as 3200 Phaethon<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Geminids are best viewed during the <\/span><b>night and predawn hours.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What are Meteors?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meteors come from leftover comet <\/span><b>particles and bits from asteroids.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As they enter the Earth\u2019s atmosphere at high speed, they burn up, creating a spectacular \u201cshower\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When these objects come around the Sun, they <\/span><b>leave a dusty trail behind them.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year Earth passes through these debris trails, which allows the bits to collide with our atmosphere where they disintegrate to create fiery and colorful streaks in the sky.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/geminid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight-when-and-how-to-watch-in-india-visibility-explained-101765642792618.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geminid meteor shower, named after the Gemini constellation, peaks in mid-December and uniquely originates from asteroid 3200 Phaethon. Read more about Geminid meteor, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4202,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-5848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-geminid-meteor","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}