In 2023, a number of space phenomena will occur, including a meteor shower.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) has noted that a number of space phenomena will occur in 2023. One of them is a meteor shower. As of 2023, BRIN has declared peak rainfall meteor Quadrantid occurs on Wednesday (01/04/2022).
Quoted from BRIN official website, Wednesday (3/1/2022), a meteor shower or meteor shower is a meteor that falls and crosses the earth’s surface in large numbers so that from the earth’s surface it will look like falling rain. This is what is known as a meteor shower.
Meanwhile, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower, named after the radiant located in the Asterism Quadrans Muralis, is currently part of the constellation Bootes. Source meteor shower comes from asteroid 2003 EH1 and comet C/1490 Y.
The intensity at the zenith reaches 110 meteors/hour with speeds reaching 147,600 km/hour. The Quadrantids are active from December 27 to January 13 and peak around January 4 in the morning. This meteor shower can be observed on January 4 at 03:00 in the northeast and begins to fade as the sun rises.
