News: Quadrantid shower makes appearance Friday

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The early hours of Friday morning (4 January) should provide an entertaining show as the Quadrantid meteor shower returns. For North America, maximum activity is expected at 1:40 am EST. This is a "tight" shower because they were formed from a comet within the last 500 years so you have only one one night to see it. At peak activity you should be able to observe an average of one meteor each minute. Europeans will have a much more entertaining show with as many as two meteors per minute visible at the peak.