The Manastash Ridge Radar
Status Update
Chucai Zhou & Dawn M. Gidner
January 03, 2002
2001 Quadrantid Meteor
Shower
From Space Weather News for
January 2, 2003:
"The Quadrantids are named after Quadrans Muralis, a 19th century
constellation no longer found in star atlases. The shower's radiant is in
the modern constellation Bootes. Like the extinct constellation Quadrans
Muralis, the cometary parent of the Quadrntid shower might also be
long-dead. Astronomers have searched for a comet that shares the orbit of
the Quadrantid debris stream, but found nothing. Perhaps it completely
disintegrated long ago or remains undiscovered."
See
http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/quadrantids/quadrantids.html for more information
on the Quadrantids.
The Manastash Ridge radar observed several meteors during
the 2002 Quadrantid meteor shower over a period of several hours between about
8:00 am and 3:00 pm on January 3, 2002 (UT 1600 - 2300). As an extra bonus, notice that there are also
several airplanes visible in some of the images.
