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- name Quadrantids, for the original and now-obsolete constellation. (196256) 2003 EH1 Qingyang event List of meteor showers Meteor showers "Quadrantids"....
- when large chunks break off a mostly dormant comet. Examples are the Quadrantids and Geminids, which originated from a breakup of asteroid-looking objects...
- hourly rate of the Quadrantids is approximately 130 meteors per hour at their peak; it is also a very narrow shower. The Quadrantids are notoriously difficult...
- Dust EXperiment (LDEX) found particle counts peaked during the Geminid, Quadrantid, Northern Taurid, and Omicron Centaurid meteor showers, when the Earth...
- Laboratory. Retrieved 7 April 2016. "IAUC 8252: 2003kw; 2003 EH_1, THE QUADRANTIDS". IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. 8 December 2003. Retrieved...
- to exist. It may be the parent body of the Quadrantids. 1973 NA is a possible parent body of the Quadrantids, a major meteor shower that occurs every January...
- parent body. Because of this, it would make this shower, along with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet. The meteors...
- (November 29 to December 9, with a peak occurring around 5/6 December), the Quadrantids (typically a January shower but can also start in December), the Sigma...
- coincidentally discovered comet C/1490 Y1, a possible progenitor of the Quadrantid meteor showers. At least three surviving Chinese historical records describe...
- skies between the still-accepted constellations Boötes and Draco. The Quadrantids meteor shower is named after this former constellation. 53 Eridani is...