Below will explain a little more about meteors

However, it is best to go away from city lights to see the meteor shower. The radiant of a meteor shower is  the area the meteor seems to move away from. The Geminid meteor shower is one shower that is fair before midnight.] [Most meteor showers are named for the constellation that they are in. There are also some meteor showers named after the parent comet.] [Sometimes a meteor does make it to earth. At this point the meteor is called a meteorite.] [Most meteors are very fast. When you see one or more meteors trip the shutter. Meteors need to be fairly bright to make it onto film. Of course the best chance to catch a meteor is on the night of a meteor shower. ] [A Bolide is an extremely bright meteor. Go to the page to see what meteor showers are occurring now. When earth crosses the dust patches we have meteor showers.]