Quadrantids Source Discovered

linuxwrangler writes "Man has observed the annual Quadrantid meteor shower since antiquity but its source has remained unknown. Astronomer Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute predicted that the source would turn out to be the burnt-out core of an ancient star. Now, just in time for this year's display, the source has been discovered right where Jenniskens predicted."

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It wasn't a star and it didnt explode...what else?

[Spamalamadingdong]

It is difficult to conceive of a literate person in this day and age who would not know that "aster" and "asterOID" are two very different things. It's difficult to think of anyone in media who wouldn't have some idea about this either, after the films "Armageddon" and "Sudden Impact" just a few short years ago.

The person who let that piece be printed in that form deserves to be the laughingstock of the science-editor community from now until he leaves the business. There is no excuse for getting high-school-level science facts wrong.