Radiant (meteor shower) move along the comet's wake, and when the Earth moves through such debris, a meteor shower results. Because all of the debris is moving in roughly the same direction, the meteors which strike the atmosphere all "point" back to the direction of the comet's path. As an exception, the Geminids are a shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid. The radiant is an important factor in observation. If the radiant point is at or below the horizon, then few if any meteors will be observed. This is because the atmosphere shields the
December Park December Park December Park is a coming of age/bildungsroman suspense novel written by Ronald Malfi. It was published in 2014 by Medallion Press, with a limited hardcover collectors edition from Cemetery Dance Publications. The novel received the 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award for best suspense novel. Malfi has credited this book with being his most autobiographical to date, citing that the fictional town of Harting Farms and its titular neighborhood park are based on the Maryland suburb of Severna Park, where Malfi grew up. The novel takes place over the course of one year, 1993-1994, and focuses on a group