- 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...
- Laboratory.
Retrieved 7
April 2016. "IAUC 8252: 2003kw; 2003 EH_1, THE
QUADRANTIDS". IAU
Central Bureau for
Astronomical Telegrams. 8
December 2003. Retrieved...
- Dust
EXperiment (LDEX)
found particle counts peaked during the Geminid,
Quadrantid,
Northern Taurid, and
Omicron Centaurid meteor showers, when the Earth...
-
coincidentally discovered comet C/1490 Y1, a
possible progenitor of the
Quadrantid meteor showers. At
least three surviving Chinese historical records describe...
- 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...
- to
Comet 96P/Machholz,
which is the
parent of two
meteor streams, the
Quadrantids and the Arietids. Of the
thousands of
known comets, some
exhibit unusual...
-
skies between the still-accepted
constellations Boötes and Draco. The
Quadrantids meteor shower is
named after this
former constellation. 53
Eridani is...
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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...
