The National Youth Space Center (hereafter the Space Center), which is commissioned by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, by the Korea Youth Activities Promotion Agency (KYWA, Chairman Lee Kwang-ho) held an ‘Quadrant meteor shower online astronomical observation meeting’ on the night of the 3rd.
This event was designed to provide an opportunity for young people to enjoy the beauty of the universe together by talking with an observing expert from the comfort of their own home, observing shooting stars.
The Quadrant meteor shower is known as one of the three major showers along with the Perseid meteor shower in August and the Gemini meteor shower in December, showing 50 to 200 meteors per hour each year. However, the time of the maximum (the period when the meteors fall the most) is very short, and in some years it is only a few hours, and the brightness of the meteors is often less than grade 3, so it can be easily observed only in dark areas.
Meteors are small objects about the size of sand from rocks in outer space and fall through the Earth’s atmosphere, emitting bright light due to friction, and are called meteors (shooting stars). A meteor shower is a phenomenon in which a lot of meteors fall at a specific time, and when a comet or asteroid passes close to the sun, it leaves debris in the Earth’s orbit.
The present parent (generating celestial body) of the Quadrant meteor shower is known to be a comet that appeared in 1490, about 500 years ago.
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