Meteor watchers across the continent can expect to see 60 to 200 meteors an hour in the skies early Wednesday.

NASA says the Quadrantid meteor shower should be perfect for viewing around 3 a.m. Wednesday after the moon sets.

After hundreds of years orbiting the sun, they will enter our atmosphere at 90,000 mph, burning up 50 miles above Earth's surface, a NASA press release says.

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