{"id":182750,"date":"2025-12-14T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/182750\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:33:07","slug":"geminids-meteor-shower-best-time-to-see-it-in-new-zealand-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/182750\/","title":{"rendered":"Geminids meteor shower: Best time to see it in New Zealand skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>14 Dec, 2025 01:35 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The annual Geminids display, captured in 2023. Photo \/ Yasser Al-Zayyat, AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The best meteor shower of the year will be visible across New Zealand skies from Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The annual meteor shower the Geminids, named after the constellation Gemini, comes from dust and debris left behind by the 3200 Phaethon asteroid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Te Whatu Stardome astronomer Josh Aoraki said it<br \/>\n         occurred at roughly the same time each year, in mid-December.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is basically Earth passing through a trail of debris which has been left behind by an asteroid and those little bits of rock and dust and ice fall into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 14 Dec, 2025 01:35 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[3390,42515,78,702,52861,117,111,139,69,147,10534,115894,9877,392,2044,61,80],"class_list":["post-182750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-best","tag-geminids","tag-in","tag-it","tag-meteor","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-see","tag-shower","tag-skies","tag-space","tag-time","tag-to","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}