The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be an asteroid of the same type as 2 Pallas. This would make the Geminids, together with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet.
The meteors from this shower are much slower (35 km/s) than most other meteor showers, can be seen in December and peak around December 7-17. Let’s see if we can confirm this with our radio observations!
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Help us identify the various complex shapes of meteor echoes in BRAMS radio data during meteor showers.
Radio Meteor ZooAbout Radio Meteor Zoo
The Radio Meteor Zoo uses images provided by BRAMS, the Belgian RAdio Meteor Stations network which uses reflection of radio waves on meteor ionized trails to detect and study the meteoroid population entering the Earth's atmosphere. The network generates a huge amount of data with tens of thousands of meteor echoes detected every day.
During meteor showers, when Earth's orbit crosses that of a comet, the meteor activity is temporarily much higher and produces a lot of complex meteor echoes in BRAMS data. To identify them, the eye remains the best detector. So we request the use of hundreds of eyes to manually identify meteor echoes during some specific meteor showers.
BRAMS is a project of the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BISA) and funded by the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (STCE).
