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NASA TV provides live video of Geminid meteor shower

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It's the most wonderful time of the year -- for spotting a Geminid meteor.

The 2012 Geminid meteor shower is forecast to be particularly lively, and Thursday night is its anticipated peak.

From 11 p.m. EST Thursday to 3 a.m. Friday (Dec. 13-14), NASA Television will air live video from a skyward-aimed astronomy camera at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., where meteor experts will be answering questions from the public via a late-night Web chat.

Social media users can join the conversation by using the hashtag #Geminid.

Geminids are pieces of debris from an extinct comet called 3200 Phaethon. Earth runs into a stream of debris from 3200 Phaethon every year in mid-December, causing meteors to fly from the constellation Gemini.  

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