name Quadrantids, for the original and now-obsolete constellation. (196256) 2003 EH1 Qingyang event List of meteor showers Meteor showers "Quadrantids"....

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...

when large chunks break off a mostly dormant comet. Examples are the Quadrantids and Geminids, which originated from a breakup of asteroid-looking objects...

Dust EXperiment (LDEX) found particle counts peaked during the Geminid, Quadrantid, Northern Taurid, and Omicron Centaurid meteor showers, when the Earth...

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...

(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...

"rock comet" orbit. This would make the Geminids, together with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet. The meteors...

Muralis survived into the 19th century (when its name was attached to the Quadrantid meteor shower), but is now divided between Boötes and Draco. A list of...

skies between the still-accepted constellations Boötes and Draco. The Quadrantids meteor shower is named after this former constellation. 53 Eridani is...

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...