The first significant rain from «shooting starsIn the spring, that of Lyrida, will peak in the sky of the northern hemisphere, where Greece belongs, on the night of Thursday, April 22 to the dawn of Friday, April 23.
The Lyrides are considered an average “rain” that usually lasts from 16 to 25 April. At their peak, they are estimated to enter the Earth’s atmosphere and glow up to 20 meteors per hour at speeds of up to 50 kilometers. Sometimes they create bright falling stars with long tails, which remain visible anywhere in the sky for several seconds. In some years, their “shooting stars” even reached 100 per hour.
As AMPE explains, this particular rain of diatton, which was first recorded in 687 BC. by the Chinese, apparently comes from the constellation of Lyra, from which it took its name, and especially from the star Vega (Alpha Lyra), which is the brightest star in this constellation and the second brightest star in the night sky of the northern hemisphere.
But the real source is Comet C / 1861 G1 “Thatcher”, discovered in 1861 by the American A. Thatcher. The comet leaves in its path a long tail of dust and particles, which intersects every year with the orbit of our planet. The comet will once again pass very close to Earth in 2276, as its orbit around the Sun lasts about 415 years.
The remnants of the comet’s tail, after its last close passage in the 19th century, still float in space and continue to cause the “rain” of the Lyrids every year.
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