Meteor shower

• If you enjoy the sight of shooting stars then make plans to be out looking skyward during the predawn hours on Wednesday (Jan. 4) when a strong display of Quadrantid meteors may appear.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• Keep an eye to the sky Tuesday night. If the skies do clear a bit, you should get a view of one of the lesser known meteor showers. The Quandrantids Meteor Shower will peak tonight across Northern Ohio.
(msnbc.com)
• This first meteor shower of 2012 may end up being one of the best.
(msnbc.com)
• Think the New Years Eve fireworks you saw were special? Theyre about to get some competition from Mother Nature -- a spectacular meteor shower headed our way. To see it, you can stay up really late tonight or get up really early tomorrow morning.
(Los Angeles Times)
• If youre a fan of stargazing, tonights your night. The Quadrantids meteor shower, potentially the best natural lightshow of the year, will be visible Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.
(YAHOO!)
• A new NASA handheld device application for mobile devices enables astronomy buffs to better track, count and record data about meteors and meteor showers anywhere in the world.
(AccuWeather.com)
• The Quadrantid meteor shower is unpredictable and sometimes difficult to see, but skygazers say tonight will be clear and dark enough that the first meteor shower of the year may also be the best.
(Washington Post)
• Tonight is one of the odder meteor showers of the years. Why is it odd? Well for one, it's called the Quadrantids — named after a constellation that got redefined years ago and no longer exists.
(DISCOVER)
• (EndPlay Staff Reports) - Star gazers will get to start 2012 off with a little-known meteor shower. NASA reported that the 2012 Quadrantids, named after an extinct constellation, will peak Wednesday morning.
(MyFox Phoenix)
• Clear skies are forecast in the area tonight, which should greatly improve the visibility of the Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of the new year. The shower will be in peak viewing time in the northern hemisphere between 3-5 a.m.
(Patch)