Take a lawn chair out to an open field tonight between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. (in North America), lean back, and enjoy what astronomers are billing as the best meteor shower of the year -- the Geminids.

Unlike most meteor showers, the Geminids are thought to bombard us with rocks, making for a much better show. Other meteor showers are just swarms of dust motes and methane ice left over from the tails of old comets. Geminid's are the spawn of an asteroid named 3200 Phaethon -- not something we need to send Bruce Willis out to stop, but spectacular just the same.

And tonight, the moon is dim enough that its light won't drown out the view.