Sky gazers in the city and elsewhere in the country can watch a meteor shower display from tomorrow night till the early hours of December 14, if clouds and light pollution do not play spoilsport. "This year the Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak on the night of December 13 and the early morning of December 14. "Though the meteors tend to originate from the Gemini constellation, they can be observed from most parts of the sky. Rocks and dust particles from space which are about to collide with Earth's atmosphere are called meteoroids. "If the Earth, in its yearly motion around the Sun happens to pass through such a trail of debris of dust particles, the small dust particles enter the Earth s atmosphere with considerable speed."

Source: dna December 12, 2017 10:03 UTC