For January 2020, the Quadrantid meteor shower will peak on the morning of Saturday, January 4 about 2 a.m. Expect perhaps 20 to 30 meteors per hour coming out of the northeast. Unlike most meteor showers made of decaying comets, this one’s origin is the “clay comet” asteroid Phaeton, which as its name implies, gets so close to the Sun its surface melts and sputters into space. We have recently learned the asteroid Bennu, now orbited by NASA’s Orisis-REX, also has such surface activity! The first quarter moon, setting about midnight, will not interfere, so bundle up.