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
The Opposite of December The Opposite of December The Opposite of December... A Season of Seperation is the first full-length album by experimental hardcore band Poison the Well, released on December 14, 1999. Very influential in the early popularization of metalcore around the turn of the century, the album was the band's first on Trustkill Records and is now recognized as a landmark album in the genre due to its quality and influence. A remastered edition of the album was released on November 20, 2012 on Rise Records. Technical "The Opposite of December" was pressed on vinyl three times, the latter being a 2008