My girlfriend just informed me of a meteor shower coming tomorrow. Anyone know more about it? Like an exact hour? An online search seems to suggest it might be the "Quadrantid shower January 3/4 some 120 meteos a hour " but it’s not from a very reliable source.
From a link that my uncle the rocket scientist has on his website sof-sys.com/links.htm :
Wednesday, 01/03
Quadrantid Meteors, 8:00 p.m.
The Full Moon detracts, but some of these faint meteors may be seen radiating from low in the North-northwestern sky (from what is now Bootes). The radiant progresses to the North and then Northeast as the hours pass.
space.com/
[quote=“Salvatore Armani”]http://www.sof-sys.com/links.htm:
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I’m not trying to be a jerk, but there’s a colon (
at the end of that URL which prevents one from going directly to that link.
Okay. When can we see it from here? Can we see it from here? I LOVE meteor showers. I’ll even go up a hill in XinDian to see it better… can we can we can wee???
I’ll be sure to go outside to look at the rain clouds.
[quote=“NeonNoodle”][quote=“Salvatore Armani”]http://www.sof-sys.com/links.htm:
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I’m not trying to be a jerk, but there’s a colon ( at the end of that URL which prevents one from going directly to that link.[/quote]
OK, got it now, but go to the Space.com link and type ‘Quadrantid’ into the search line.
Here’s another link for the Quadrantid showers:
earthsky.org/article/50892/f … s-on-jan-3
Hmm, so it looks like it will arrive Thursday morning…and yes rain clouds will prevent us from seeing anything…oh well. It was worth a shot at asking.