|
The Quadrantids are a meteor shower.
The meteors appear to radiate from an area inside the constellation
Boötes. The name comes from Quadrans Muralis, an obsolete constellation that
is now part of Boötes.
The parent body of the Quadrantids was recently tentatively identified as the asteroid 2003 EH1, which in turn may be the same object as
the comet C/1490 Y1 which was observed
by Chinese, Japanese and Korean astronomers 500 years ago.
This article is a stub. You can
help Wikipedia by expanding it .
|