stop it already! geez! the sitings this week are part of the quandrantid meteor shower

Well, at least spell it accurately. It's QUADRANTIDS.

ignore the troll OP as he is making threads of comments it's already posted on other threads

Wrong.

The shower doesn't last long, only a few hours. Even dedicated meteor watchers are likely to miss such a sharp maximum. In his classic book Meteor Astronomy, Prof. A.C.B. Lovell lamented that "useful counts of the Quadrantid rate were made in [only] 24 Januaries out of a possible 68 between 1860 and 1927. ... The maximum rate during this period appears to have occurred in 1932 (80 per hour) although the results are influenced by unfavorable weather."

The source of the Quadrantid meteor shower was unknown until Dec. 2003 when 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. Earth intersects the orbit of 2003 EH1 at a perpendicular angle, which means we quickly move through any debris. That's why the shower is so brief.

Via [link to www.spaceweather.com]