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Photo: "Year's Best" Meteor Shower to Peak December 13-14


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A Geminid meteor streaks across swirling stars in a time-elapsed photo taken on Georgia's Brasstown Bald Mountain in 1985.

In what astronomers are calling the year's best sky show, the annual Geminid shower will peak on December 13 and 14, 2007.

Photograph by Jimmy Westlake, courtesy NASA