Tour January's Sky by Eye and Ear!
Sky & Telescope
Here are some highlights The month starts off with a bang, celestially speaking, as the annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on the morning of January 4th. This year's edition favors North America, but to see these "shooting stars" you'll need to be ...
12 Must-See Skywatching Events in 2012
Space.com
This meteor shower reaches its peak in the predawn hours of Jan. 4 for eastern North America. The Quadrantid meteor shower is a very short-lived meteor display, whose peak rates only last several hours. The phase of the moon is a bright waxing gibbous, ...
Viewing Prospects for the 2012 Quadrantid Meteor Shower ...
Some meteor organizations refer to this shower as the Bootids. It is thought that this shower is related to the recently discovered asteroid 2003 EH1. ...
www.amsmeteors.org/.../viewing-prospects-for-the-2012-quad...
A good year for the Quadrantids
Alamogordo Daily News
These are popularly called "shooting stars" or "falling stars," but these terms are actually misnomers; the more proper term is "meteor" from the Greek word meaning "lofty" or "high in the air." A meteoroccurs whenever a small grain of dust in ...
Meteor Shower Pictures Of 2011
Did you wish upon a shooting star in 2011? In case you missed your chance, here are some of our favorite meteor shower images from 2011.
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../best-meteor-shower-pictures-201...
Christmas Eve fireball sparked by falling rocket debris - Technology ...
A dazzling fireball that lit up the night sky above Europe in a bright Christmas Eve display was no meteor or comet. A falling piece of a Russian rocket created the ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../christmas-eve-fireball-sparked-falling...
