Quadrantid Meteor Shower: Odd in Several Ways

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 01:31 in Astronomy & Space

The Quadrantids are a meteor shower in January that peak for only about six hours, are named for a constellation that no longer exists and come from an asteroid rather than a comet.

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