Quadrantid Meteor Shower

Fellow Explorers,

Beginning each New Year and lasting for nearly a week, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower sparkles across the night sky for nearly all viewers around the world.

Any meteors will seem to come from the general direction of bright Arcturus and Boötes.

According to NASA, scientists believe this could be the most brilliant meteor shower in 2008 with over 100 visible meteors per hour at its peak. Best viewing times with the highest meteor rates are expected to be in either the late evening of Jan. 3 over Europe and western Asia or the early morning of Jan. 4 over the eastern United States. For the USA: 6pm – 2am (Pacific Time) on Jan. 3 and 4, 2008. For Northern Europe: 2am – 10am (London) on Jan. 4, 2008. For Northern Asia: 11am – 7pm (Tokyo) on Jan. 4, 2008.

For those of you in the Midwest like myself, this means that Thursday and Friday from 8PM to 4AM there is a reasonably good shot of seeing something up there.

Good Luck!

Your Interstellar Ambassador,

Shane