2018's first meteor shower to coincide with fading supermoon
The Quadrantid meteor shower, which peaks annually on January 3-4 would be difficult to observe under the light of the fading supermoon, which occurred on January 2. The shower gets its name from the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis. Quadrantids are formed from asteroid 2003 EH1, which produces around 50-100 meteors per hour as Earth passes through its debris.