The first meteor shower of 2011 is going to be on display tonight between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. MST. It's going to be a spectacular show with Quadrantids possibly displaying as many as 100 blasts an hour.
This meteor shower is going to be as intense as the Perseids which is active August 9th to 14th.
The Quadrantids Meteor shower has been observed for over 500 years by the Chinese, Japanese and Korean astronomers.
In December 2003, Peter Jenniskens of the NASA Ames Research Center found evidence that Quadrantid meteoroids come from 2003 EH1, an "asteroid" that is probably a piece of a comet that broke apart some 500 years ago.
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