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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2012 11:07:31 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jan 3, 2012 13:08:21 GMT -6
www.space.com/14104-strong-quadrantid-meteor-shower-peaks-wednesday.html Strong Quadrantid Meteor Shower, One of 2012's Best, Peaks Wednesdayby Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist Date: 03 January 2012 If you enjoy the sight of "shooting stars" then make plans to be out looking skyward during the predawn hours on Wednesday (Jan. 4) when a strong display of Quadrantid meteors may appear. This first meteor shower of the year may end up being one of the best of 2012. To paraphrase Forrest Gump: The Quadrantid meteor shower is like opening up a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get! Indeed, the Quadrantids are notoriously unpredictable, but if any year promises a fine display, this could be it. Peak activity is due to occur early on Wednesday at about 2:30 a.m. EST (0730 GMT) and favors eastern North America. The Quadrantid meteor shower sky map here for this story shows where to look to see the display. The Quadrantids (pronounced KWA-dran-tids) provides one of the most intense annualmeteor showers, with a brief, sharp maximum lasting but a few hours. Adolphe Quetelet of Brussels Observatory discovered the shower in the 1830s, and shortly afterward it was noted by several other astronomers in Europe and America. The meteors are named after the obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis the Mural or Wall Quadrant (an astronomical instrument), depicted in some 19th-century star atlases roughly midway between the end of the Handle of the Big Dipper and the quadrilateral of stars marking the head of the constellation Draco. The International Astronomical Union phased out Quadrans Muralis in 1922. CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/14104-strong-quadrantid-meteor-shower-peaks-wednesday.html
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Post by paulette on Jan 3, 2012 13:49:19 GMT -6
Rain dripping from sky. Seeing meteorites unlikely in small hours. Will I set the clock and try anyway? To be continued...
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Post by casper on Jan 3, 2012 16:00:46 GMT -6
Why can't they schedule meteor showers for times when people will be awake? It's snowing where I am anyway so I guess I won't get to see it. that means I can stay in bed and sleep.
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Post by swamprat on Jan 3, 2012 17:28:47 GMT -6
Crystal clear, here; record (mid-teens) cold forecast. Sigh..... Tomorrow is first day back to work..... Will I get up at 2:00am??
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Post by skywalker on Jan 3, 2012 17:55:01 GMT -6
Maybe you could record it on video and watch it later.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2012 4:20:51 GMT -6
If anyone can see these, I highly recommend it ! These things are shooting like crazy,,,came in for coffee,,bbbrrrrrr,,,going back out .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2012 4:54:23 GMT -6
Went to bed at 6 p.m. last night so I could get up and see this. Got up at 3 a.m., Looked out the window to check weather conditions and immediately within a second saw one. Kelly made coffee, I took out the dogs and was treated to a show that was worth every bit of the cold !!
These meteors were sporadic,sometimes none for about a minute, and then 1-5 would start shooting in all directions. Im going back out one more time. The weather was clear at times with patches here and there of high cirrus clouds but the display is amazing !! I truly hope everyone here got to see this !!
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Post by skywalker on Jan 5, 2012 8:41:04 GMT -6
All I saw was the insides of my eyelids. Maybe I was looking in the wrong direction...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2012 10:47:17 GMT -6
All I saw was the insides of my eyelids. Maybe I was looking in the wrong direction... That's what I saw too... Glad you saw it though Cliff... =D
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Post by auntym on Jan 5, 2012 13:39:57 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Jan 6, 2012 20:06:03 GMT -6
How can a constellation go extinct? Did the stars in it explode or something?
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