Editing Meteor shower (section)

==== Established meteor showers ====

Official names are given in the International Astronomical Union's list of meteor showers.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 August 2015 |title=List of all meteor showers |url=http://www.astro.amu.edu.pl/~jopek/MDC2007/ |publisher=[[International Astronomical Union]]}}</ref>
{{Expand list|date=August 2017}}
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! width=25% | Shower
! width=20% | Time
! Parent object
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| [[Quadrantids]]
| early January
| The same as the parent object of minor planet {{mpl|2003 EH|1}},<ref>
{{Cite journal |last=Jenniskens |first=P. |date=March 2004 |title=2003 EH<sub>1</sub> is the Quadrantid shower parent comet |journal=Astronomical Journal |volume=127 |issue=5 |pages=3018–3022 |bibcode=2004AJ....127.3018J |doi=10.1086/383213 |doi-access=free}}</ref> and [[Qingyang event#Coincidental comet and megatsunami|Comet C/1490 Y1]].<ref name="Ball">{{Cite journal |last=Ball |first=Phillip |year=2003 |title=Dead comet spawned New Year meteors |url=http://www.nature.com/news/2003/031231/full/news031229-5.html |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |doi=10.1038/news031229-5}}</ref><ref name="Haines">Haines, Lester, [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/08/quadrantid_meteors/ Meteor shower traced to 1490 comet break-up: Quadrantid mystery solved], ''[[The Register]]'', January 8, 2008.</ref> Comet C/1385 U1 has also been studied as a possible source.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Marco Micheli |last2=Fabrizio Bernardi |last3=David J. Tholen |date=May 16, 2008 |title=Updated analysis of the dynamical relation between asteroid {{mp|2003 EH|1}} and comets C/1490 Y1 and C/1385 U1 |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters |volume=390 |issue=1 |pages=L6–L8 |arxiv=0805.2452 |bibcode=2008MNRAS.390L...6M |doi=10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00510.x |doi-access=free |s2cid=119299384}}</ref>
|-
| [[Lyrids]]
| late April
| Comet [[Thatcher (Comet)|Thatcher]]
|-
| [[Pi Puppids]] (periodic)
| late April
| Comet [[26P/Grigg–Skjellerup]]
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| [[Eta Aquariids]]
| early May
| Comet [[1P/Halley]]
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| [[Arietids]]
| mid-June
| Comet [[96P/Machholz]], [[Marsden comet group|Marsden]] and [[Kracht comet group|Kracht]] comet groups complex<ref name="MeteorShowers" /><ref name="96p">{{Cite journal |last1=Sekanina, Zdeněk |last2=Chodas, Paul W. |date=December 2005 |title=Origin of the Marsden and Kracht Groups of Sunskirting Comets. I. Association with Comet 96P/Machholz and Its Interplanetary Complex |journal=Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=551 |bibcode=2005ApJS..161..551S |doi=10.1086/497374 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
|-
| [[Beta Taurids]]
| late June
| Comet [[2P/Encke]]
|-
| [[June Bootids]] (periodic)
| late June
| Comet [[7P/Pons-Winnecke]]
|-
| [[Southern Delta Aquariids]]
| late July
| Comet [[96P/Machholz]], [[Marsden comet group|Marsden]] and [[Kracht comet group|Kracht]] comet groups complex<ref name="MeteorShowers" /><ref name="96p" />
|-
| [[Alpha Capricornids]]
| late July
| Comet [[169P/NEAT]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jenniskens |first1=P. |last2=Vaubaillon |first2=J. |date=2010 |title=Minor Planet 2002 EX12 (=169P/NEAT) and the Alpha Capricornid Shower |journal=Astronomical Journal |volume=139 |issue=5 |pages=1822–1830 |bibcode=2010AJ....139.1822J |doi=10.1088/0004-6256/139/5/1822 |s2cid=59523258 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
|-
| [[Perseids]]
| mid-August
| Comet [[109P/Swift-Tuttle]]
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| [[Kappa Cygnids]]
| mid-August
| Minor planet [[2008 ED69]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jenniskens |first1=P. |last2=Vaubaillon |first2=J. |date=2008 |title=Minor Planet 2008 ED69 and the Kappa Cygnid Meteor Shower |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/12801/1/JENaj08.pdf |journal=Astronomical Journal |volume=136 |issue=2 |pages=725–730 |bibcode=2008AJ....136..725J |doi=10.1088/0004-6256/136/2/725 |s2cid=122768057}}</ref>
|-
| [[Aurigids]] (periodic)
| early September
| Comet [[C/1911 N1 (Kiess)]]<ref name="Jenniskens Vaubaillon 2007 Unusual">{{Cite journal |last1=Jenniskens |first1=Peter |last2=Vaubaillon |first2=Jérémie |date=2007 |title=An Unusual Meteor Shower on 1 September 2007 |journal=[[Eos (journal)|Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union]] |volume=88 |issue=32 |pages=317–318 |bibcode=2007EOSTr..88..317J |doi=10.1029/2007EO320001 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
|-
| [[Draconids]] (periodic)
| early October
| Comet [[21P/Giacobini-Zinner]]
|-
| [[Orionids]]
| late October
| Comet [[1P/Halley]]
|-
| [[Southern Taurids]]
| early November
| Comet [[2P/Encke]]
|-
| [[Northern Taurids]]
| mid-November
| Minor planet {{mpl|2004 TG|10}} and others<ref name="MeteorShowers" /><ref name="Porubčan2006">{{Cite journal |last1=Porubčan |first1=V. |last2=Kornoš |first2=L. |last3=Williams |first3=I.P. |date=2006 |title=The Taurid complex meteor showers and asteroids |journal=Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=103–117 |arxiv=0905.1639 |bibcode=2006CoSka..36..103P}}</ref>
|-
| [[Andromedids]] (periodic)
| mid-November
| Comet [[3D/Biela]]<ref name="Jenniskens Vaubaillon 2007 3D/Biela">{{Cite journal |last1=Jenniskens |first1=P. |last2=Vaubaillon |first2=J. |year=2007 |title=3D/Biela and the Andromedids: Fragmenting versus Sublimating Comets |url=http://authors.library.caltech.edu/12800/1/JENaj07b.pdf |journal=The Astronomical Journal |volume=134 |issue=3 |pages=1037 |bibcode=2007AJ....134.1037J |doi=10.1086/519074 |s2cid=18785028}}</ref>
|-
| [[Alpha Monocerotids]] (periodic)
| mid-November
| unknown<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jenniskens |first1=P. |last2=Betlem |first2=H. |last3=De Lignie |first3=M. |last4=Langbroek |first4=M. |date=1997 |title=The Detection of a Dust Trail in the Orbit of an Earth-threatening Long-Period Comet |journal=Astrophysical Journal |volume=479 |issue=1 |pages=441 |bibcode=1997ApJ...479..441J |doi=10.1086/303853 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
|-
| [[Leonids]]
| mid-November
| Comet [[55P/Tempel-Tuttle]]
|-
| [[Phoenicids]] (periodic)
| early December
| Comet [[289P/Blanpain]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jenniskens |first1=P. |last2=Lyytinen |first2=E. |date=2005 |title=Meteor Showers from the Debris of Broken Comets: D/1819 W1 (Blanpain), 2003 WY25, and the Phoenicids |journal=Astronomical Journal |volume=130 |issue=3 |pages=1286–1290 |bibcode=2005AJ....130.1286J |doi=10.1086/432469 |doi-access=}}</ref>
|-
| [[Geminids]]
| mid-December
| Minor planet [[3200 Phaethon]]<ref name="IAUC3881">{{Cite web |last=Brian G. Marsden |author-link=Brian G. Marsden |date=1983-10-25 |title=IAUC 3881: 1983 TB AND THE GEMINID METEORS; 1983 SA; KR Aur |url=http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/03800/03881.html#Item0 |access-date=2011-07-05 |publisher=International Astronomical Union Circular}}</ref>
|-
| [[Ursids]]
| late December
| Comet [[8P/Tuttle]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jenniskens |first1=P. |last2=Lyytinen |first2=E. |last3=De Lignie |first3=M.C. |last4=Johannink |first4=C. |last5=Jobse |first5=K. |last6=Schievink |first6=R. |last7=Langbroek |first7=M. |last8=Koop |first8=M. |last9=Gural |first9=P. |last10=Wilson |first10=M.A. |last11=Yrjölä |first11=I. |last12=Suzuki |first12=K. |last13=Ogawa |first13=H. |last14=De Groote |first14=P. |date=2002 |title=Dust Trails of 8P/Tuttle and the Unusual Outbursts of the Ursid Shower |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1229852 |journal=Icarus |volume=159 |issue=1 |pages=197–209 |bibcode=2002Icar..159..197J |doi=10.1006/icar.2002.6855}}</ref>
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|Canis-Minorids
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