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Quadrantid comparison table

Subject	has rate	has start time	has definition	is a kind of	has radiant	is an instance of	has duration
meteor shower	the number of meteors observed in a given interval from the observers location		temporary increase in the rate at which meteors are observed when the target runs into a swarm of meteoroids that share a common orbit	periodic celestial event	a location on the sky from which meteor showers seem to originate		a few hours
Quadrantid	80 per hour	3 January			???	meteor shower	0.4 days

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