A grand year for the Geminids

The Geminid meteor shower peaked on the mornings of December 13 and 14. We heard many reports of excellent displays! Photos here. "The Geminids are good," reported veteran meteor observer Eliot Herman in Tucson, Arizona, who captured this fireball on the morning of December 14 around 4 a.m. The 2017 Geminid meteor shower was thought to have a better-than-average chance of producing a rich display, since the Geminids' parent body - a strange rock-comet called 3200 Phaethon - is nearby .