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Quadrantids Source Discovered

Posted by timothy on from the special-effects-department dept.

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."

3 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's the stupidest non-SCO article I've seen yet. For several minutes the sfgate url made me think it was scifi. Bad cheesy scifi.

  2. Ouch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice typo.

    sed 's/Burnt Out Star/Burnt Out Comet/g' < sfgate > sanity

  3. Russian leader? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since the Leonid shower is named after Brezhnev, which Russian leader in this one named after?

    Is there one yet called the Putinoids?