Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight 12-13-2017

Nearly two-hundred years ago a riverboat was traveling along the Mississippi. Some sleepless soul was out on deck, looking up at the sky and noted in a log a brilliant phenomenon. Thousands of bright falling stars raced across the sky. It happened again the next year, and the next. Eventually this would be named the Geminid Meteor Shower and it would be expectantly looked forward to with unchanging expectation as the humans who watched it grew from horse drawn carriages, to Model-Ts, to powered flight, into the space age.  Tonight the crew of the International Space Station will batten down their hatches as they watch the rain of sparks from above, just as the crew of the riverboat marveled from below hundreds of years ago. Just as we can expect to marvel for generations to come.

So tonight find a friend, dress WARMLY, find a nice seat with a clear view of the sky, and enjoy a fleeting connection with the past, the present, and the future.