One of the most intense annual meteor showers, the Quadrantids, will peak over North America on January 3, 2001. Observers in western parts of Canada, the USA and Mexico could see an impressive outburst of shooting stars, numbering as many as 100 per hour.

FULL STORY and GRAPHICS at:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast29dec_1.htm?list112226

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Contact: Tony Phillips[email protected]

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