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The Ursid meteor shower will be peaking on the 22nd, the annual shower has had up to a hundred meteors and hour in the past at peak and in will be radiating down from the base of the little dipper, (look up from Polaris)
The peak is the morning of December 22, but tomorrow morning or Friday morning (December 21 or 23) might yield some meteors as well.
The winter solstice will also be tomorrow at 16;28 UTC, 8:28 PST. The days ( light) will begin to get longer until the spring equinox in March and the summer solstice in June.
On this Day: December 20th 2013
The Chinese place a telecommunications satellite for the Bolivian government.
Kevin Griffiths
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