[HN Gopher] 2024 Quadrantid meteor shower to peak January 3-4
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       2024 Quadrantid meteor shower to peak January 3-4
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2023-12-24 14:52 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (earthsky.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (earthsky.org)
        
       | typpo wrote:
       | Using recorded meteor data from NASA CAMS, I built this
       | visualization of the meteor cloud that creates the Quadrantids:
       | https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Quadrantids
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       | The Quadrantids are interesting because their source is not
       | obvious, but the most likely one (as noted in the article) is an
       | asteroid with a relatively unusual orbit that is likely an
       | extinct comet.
        
       | desertlounger wrote:
       | How does a constellation become "obsolete"?
        
         | sp332 wrote:
         | The International Astronomical Union stopped publishing it in
         | their list of constellations in 1922, and no one really learns
         | about it anymore.
        
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