Get excited - the year's best meteor shower will be lighting up the skies this weekend! According to the Huffington Post, the 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower will be peaking overnight on Saturday, Dec. 13 through Sunday, Dec.14. If weather conditions permit, viewers in the Northern Hemisphere may be able to glimpse as many as 120 meteors per hour starting around 9 p.m. local time until dawn.

PC Mag reports that, luckily, meteor showers like this one are visible from anywhere on the planet. However, they do have a more specific peak time, which will be around 1:30 or 2 am regardless of location.

For those who don't know much about the Geminids, they are unique from any other meteor shower in that they originate from an asteroid (named 3200 Phaethon) rather than a comet. As a result, the meteors produced are abundant in number and are particularly fiery and fun to watch.

Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) stated, "The thing about the Geminids that makes them different is that [the debris that strikes the atmosphere] appears to be very dense...

Most meteor showers are like ice, which means they burn up quick. The Geminids have a density greater than rock-around 3 grams/cm³. And they penetrate fairly deep into the atmosphere...As a matter of fact, there are only two meteor showers each year that are capable of producing meteorites on the ground. The first of these is the Taurids meteor shower in late October and the second one is the Geminids."

If for some reason you are unable to make it outside when the meteors show up, the Slooh space camera is scheduled to live-stream the shower on Saturday starting at 8 PM. And for those of you who are planning to trek outdoors, here are some words of advice from Sky & Telescope's senior editor, Alan MacRobert: "Go out late in the evening, lie back in a reclining lawn chair, and gaze up into the stars...Relax, be patient, and let your eyes adapt to the darkness."