Geminids Geminids The Geminids is a meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid with a "rock comet" orbit. This would make the Geminids, together with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet. The meteors from this shower are slow moving, can be seen in December and usually peak around December 6–14, with the date of highest intensity being the morning of December 14. The shower is thought to be intensifying every year and recent showers have seen 120–160 meteors per hour under optimal conditions, generally around 02:00
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