Meteor Showers

The xkcd guide to meteor showers ((This panel is a table with candy-cane shading. The three columns are "Name", "Peak", and "Notes". It is given here in a |-delimited form.)) Name | Peak | Notes Quadrantids | January 4th | Bring pets inside during peak activity Tricuspids | January 21st | Not viewable in region 2 countries Centaurids | February 6th | Too faint to see without going outside Beta Aquariids | February 10th | Inverted shower converges toward Aquarius instead of radiating away Chelyabids | February 15th | Only one meteor per shower, but it's big. Lyrids | April 22nd | Meteors sometimes scream Daytime Zeta Perseids | June 9th | Likely a NASA hoax June Boötids | June 27th | 50 50 mix of meteors and shooting stars Southern Delta Aquariids | July 19th | Meteors very bright, but stationary Dromaeosaurids | June 22nd | Fast, highly intelligent, can open doors Perseids | August 12th | Instead of falling from sky, meteors erupt from ground Tau Pyramids | August 15th | Visible even when eyes are closed Draconids | October 8th | Very slow, but follow you if you run Orionids | October 21st | Entire shower happens at once Leonids | November 17th | In 1966, unusually active Leonid shower killed god Geminids | December 13th | Can be deflected with tennis rackets {{Title text: Remember, meteors always hit the tallest object around.}}

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