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Look to Tonight's Sky for Meteor Shower

Wish on a shooting star tonight.

According to Space.com a strong display of Quadrantid meteors may appear during the predawn hours on Wednesday. This first meteor shower of the year may end up being one of the most dramatic of 2012.

Quadrantid meteor showers are notoriously unpredictable, but if any year promises a fine display, this could be it.

Peak activity is due to occur early on Wednesday at about 2:30 a.m. And Dundalk should be in for a show. The Quadrantid meteor shower sky map above shows where to look to see the display.

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The Quadrantids provides one of the most intense annual meteor showers, with a brief, sharp maximum lasting but a few hours. Adolphe Quetelet of Brussels Observatory discovered the shower in the 1830s, and shortly afterward it was noted by several other astronomers in Europe and America.

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