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KUWAIT, Jan 4 (KUNA) - The Quadrantid meteors to be seen today and tomorrow
night in Kuwaiti skies, Astronomer Adel Al-Saadoon said on Wednesday.
The Quadrantids are a major shower, Al-Saadoon told KUNA, adding that they
come from a comet that broke into fragments when it was nearing the sun 500
years ago.
He added that Quadrantids meteors are a combination of many meteors in
space throughout the years, producing more than 100 meteors per hour from a
radiant near the North Star, noting that the first phase of the meteors in
2012 has already peaked and it is possibly visible around 10:00 PM at North
Pole direction, and, specifically, south of the Big Dipper. (end)
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