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Jiang Feibo/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images(NEW YORK) With mostly clear to partly cloudy skies expected over much of the United States, this year s Geminid meteor shower is forecast to offer one of the best cosmic shows in recent years, according to astronomers.
Shooting star-like debris from the 3200 Phaethon asteroid, a 3.17-mile wide space rock orbiting the Earth at a distance of more than 6.4 million miles, is expected to be at its peak on Wednesday night, according to NASA.
"The forecast looks very favorable, and that is everything," Bart Fried, executive vice president of the Amateur Astronomers Association in New York, told ABC News.
In some parts of the county, stargazers can expect to see up to 120 meteors per hour streaking across the sky, according to Fried. But in places like New York City, with its brightly lit skyline, would-be astronomers might see 20 to 30 meteors per hour, or one every two minutes during the peak, Fried said.
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