The Quadrantid meteor shower, known for its intensity and brief duration, will peak on January 3rd. Ideal viewing times will favor Alaska, Hawaii, and eastern Asia.
A Quadrantid meteor streaks across the sky over the Beypazari district of Ankara, Turkey on Jan. 5, 2022. (Fatih Kurt / Anadolu Agency Getty Images via CNN Newsource)The new year kicks off with the peak of the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor shower s of the year, according to But keep your eyes peeled because with a peak only lasting about six hours, as opposed to multiple days, the Quadrantids are also one of the quickest meteor shower s to blaze across the night sky.
Meteors are leftover pieces from broken asteroids and comet particles that spread out in dusty trails orbiting the sun. Each year, Earth passes through the debris trails, and pieces of dust and rock create colourful, fiery displays called meteor showers as they disintegrate in our planet’s atmosphere. The peak of the Quadrantids is so limited compared with most meteor showers because the shower only has a thin stream of particles and Earth passes through the densest concentration of those particles quickly at a perpendicular angle, according to NASA.Maximum meteor activity is expected to peak between 10 a.m. ET to 1 p.m. ET (15 to 18 Coordinated Universal Time) on Jan. 3, which favours Alaska, Hawaii and far eastern Asia, said Bob Lunsford, fireball report coordinator for the Sky-gazers on the east coast of North America may see up to 25 meteors streaking across the skies, while those on the west coast could see double that amount due to a later sunrise, Lunsford said. And if skies remain clear over western Alaska, viewers of the shower could witness an excess of 100 meteors per hour, he said. The waxing crescent moon, only 11 per cent full, will set well before midnight, allowing unhampered viewing of the meteor shower, Lunsford said. While the Quadrantids don’t have long, persistent trains streaking behind them, they are capable of producing bright fireballs for a dramatic displa
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