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Times, Quadrantids How to Stream Live, Astronomy Event Details Here

Swords Today 04 Jan 2022

The chessboards have arrived to welcome the new year. The annual meteor shower rises just after 2.00 pm tomorrow, and you can see 80 meteors per hour. According to NASA, the speed of the meteorite is 41 kilometers per second ... Our own doctor ... The meteorite got its name from the constellation Quadrans Muralis (The Wall Square) ... – Professor ... ....

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Space Events to Look Up For in 2022

NBCBayArea 04 Jan 2022

The new year is here, which means the Earth just finished a full circle around the sun. With the new year comes new opportunities to look up at the sky, for beautiful cosmic sights worth breaking out the telescope and camera ... Note ... U.S. & World. travel Jan 3 ... The shower is named for the Bootes constellation, originally known as the Quadrans Muralis ... .

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Quadrantids offer winter meteor spectacle

Phys Dot Org 03 Jan 2022

Northern hemisphere stargazers can look forward to what could be 2022's best meteor shower on 3–4 January ... Meteor showers appear to emanate from a radiant point, in this case named for the defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, and now sited in the constellation Bootes, near the famous Plough asterism ... Explore further ... Citation ... ....

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Look up tonight! Quadrantids Meteor Shower will peak this evening with up to 50 shooting ...

The Daily Mail 03 Jan 2022

Quadrantids over in the Great Khingan Mountains in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, January 4, 2019. WHAT ARE THE QUADRANTIDS? ... SOURCE. NASA ... The name comes from Quadrans Muralis, which is a former constellation created in 1795 by the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that included portions of Boötes and Draco, but has since fallen out of use ... .

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Quadrantid meteor shower 2022: how to watch the peak and other key UK dates

The Daily Telegraph 03 Jan 2022

Many of us will be marking our calendars for January 3 to catch a glimpse of the Quadrantids in the first significant meteor shower of the year ... The Quadrantids appear to radiate from the extinct constellation Quadrans Muralis, which is now part of the Boötes constellation and not far from the Big Dipper ... What exactly is a meteor shower? ... .

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Quadrantid meteor shower January 4, 2022: Timings, how to watch from India, and more

Indian Express 03 Jan 2022

The Quadrantids are here to welcome the new year. The annual meteor showers will peak after 2.00 am tomorrow morning and you can see approximately 80 meteors per hour. According to NASA, the meteor velocity is 41 kilometres per second ... https.//t.co/HDPZwDqccC ... The meteor shower gets its name from the constellation of Quadrans Muralis (Mural Quadrant) ... .

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How to watch the spectacular Quadrantids meteor shower this week

Digital Trends 02 Jan 2022

As for why this shower is called the Quadrantids, it is named after the now-obsolete name of constellation Quadrans Muralis where the first observations of the shower appeared to originate in 1825 ... did not include Quadrans Muralis, but the name of the meteor shower has persisted.

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Look up as the Quadrantid meteor shower puts on a show in the new year

Henry Herald 02 Jan 2022

The Quadrantids are typically among the strongest meteor showers of the year ... Brief but intense peak ... Unusual origins ... The constellation Quadrans Muralis, first observed and noted in 1795 between Boötes and Draco, is no longer included in the International Astronomical Union's list of modern constellations because it is considered obsolete ... +10 ... .

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Catch some Quadrantid meteors to kick off 2022

Astronomy/Spaceflight Now 01 Jan 2022

The Quadrantids comes from the obsolete constellation of Quadrans Muralis, which was invented in the 1790s by the French astronomer Joseph Jérôme de Lalande ... In 1801, the constellation appeared Latinised as Quadrans Muralis in German astronomer Johann Bode’s massive Uranographia star atlas.

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What to See in the Night Sky for January 2022

Treehugger 01 Jan 2022

Nonetheless, below are some space-related dates to note over the next few weeks, as well as a preview of other events in the months ahead worth checking out ... 2) ... Named after a now-extinct constellation called Quadrans Muralis, the Quadrantids are an annual meteor shower that appear to radiate from the more-enjoyable-to-pronounce constellation Boötes.

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Astro Bob: Start 2022 with the Quadrantids

Duluth News Tribune 31 Dec 2021

While it won't come close to a traditional fireworks show, I like the cosmic coincidence of a meteor shower at the start of the new year. Named for the obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis, the Quadrantids (kwah-DRAN-tids) range from a modest shower to one of the strongest of the year. It all depends on where you live ... local time ... until dawn ... 3.

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Stargazers could enjoy the best meteor shower of 2022 NEXT WEEK with 50 shooting stars ...

The Daily Mail 31 Dec 2021

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The Sky This Week: Enjoy the Quadrantids

Astronomy 31 Dec 2021

Ring in the new year with a comet, a meteor shower, and the Moon’s journey past several planets from December 31 to January 7. RELATED TOPICS. OBSERVING. Quadrantid meteor ... EST ... local time, when the radiant, located in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis (modern-day Boötes the Herdsman), is more than 40° high in the northeast ... .

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Fireballs expected to streak across the night sky early in new year

Penn Live 30 Dec 2021

With the new moon absent from the night sky during the peak, which will run from about 1 a.m ... According to EarthSky.org, “The name Quadrantids comes from the constellation Quadrans Muralis (Mural Quadrant) ... Then, in 1922, the International Astronomical Union created a list of the 88 modern constellations, and it did not include Quadrans Muralis.”.

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Shooting stars will start the year

The Times/The Sunday Times 27 Dec 2021

The Quadrantids’ parent, Quadrans Muralis, the “mural quadrant”, failed to make it through the rationalisation of constellation boundaries in 1930, and ...