Geminids 2001 Meteor Gallery, Dec 13-14, 2001
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Summary: The annual Geminid meteor shower peaked in 2001 on Dec. 13th and 14th. Some sky watchers with dark clear skies reported seeing as many as 90 meteors per hour. [more]

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Thad V'Soske, near San Diego, CA, USA
Dec. 13
#1, #2, #3, #4, more T. V'Soske: "I used Kodak P1600 slide film and exposed from 5 to 10 minutes for these images. I was fortunate to enjoy this excellent show at a dark site just west of Anza-Borrego Dessert State Park in southern California. "

Doug Schmutz, Santa Clara, Utah, USA
Dec. 13
#1, more D. Schmutz: "This is the only picture of a Geminid I could catch this year!"

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Wojtek Welnowski, Wuppertal, Germany
Dec. 14
This *.avi movie requires the DivX-codec: #1 (120 kb) W. Welnowski created this movie of a Geminid over Germany using a PC Vision 300 Camera and Virtualdub 1.4.7.

Ronald L Wayman, Tampa, Florida , USA
Dec. 13
#1 The night sky over Florida was cloudy when the Geminids arrived. R. Wayman captured this meteor through a break in the clouds.

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