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| An Artistic impression of Meteor Showers |
Quadrantids is amongst the strongest meteor showers that produces about 40 meteor in an hour. Unfortunately it is visible only from the high northern
latitudes i.e locations above the equator line on the globe however, not at all
visible from the southern locations. The meteor shower is believed to consist
of the leftover debris (grains) of the Comet named 2003 EH1. It is named
Quadrantids as the meteor shower seems to originate from the constellation Quadrans
Muralis near the Bootes, the Herdsman constellation in our sky. The meteor
shower repeats annually when the Earth comes in contact with debris of the
comet while completing another circle around the Sun.
