It will attain a magnitude of -1.4, making it 10,000 times brighter than the average star in the sky. Most interestingly, it falls in the constellation Gemini. Thus, it will feature highly in the ...
From Earth's perspective, the Geminid meteor shower appears to originate from approximately the direction of the Gemini constellation. But don't look directly at Gemini to find Geminid meteors ...
The Geminids are the early bird’s meteor shower as the sun sets early in December, and the constellation Gemini — from which they appear to originate — rises roughly an hour after nightfall ...
Most interestingly, it falls in the constellation Gemini. Thus, it will feature highly in the night sky. The planet will appear bigger in the sky and measure 14.6 arcseconds in disk size.
"It's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter-million miles away from the Earth. So something 7.6 million miles out would be many, many ...