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Don't wait for the Geminid meteor shower peak. How and why you should watch early this year.

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The Geminid meteor shower will peak from Friday Dec. 13 into early Saturday Dec. 14 .

The shower usually starts around 9 or 10 p.m. local time, with the meteors best viewed at night or in the pre-dawn hours .

Meteors are space rocks that enter Earth 's atmosphere and heat up as they fall toward Earth .

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