On the night of April 23, the intensity of the Lyrid meteor shower is expected to be highest. About this TASS said At the Moscow Planetarium.
The Lyrid meteor shower is active from April 14-25. The summit will be on April 22-23. According to the estimations of the International Meteor Organization, up to 18 meteorites are expected per hour,” experts said.
In the region where the constellations Lyra and Hercules are located, it will be possible to search for a stream in the sky. The estimated speed of the meteorites would be 49 km/s, which is considered high speed and much faster than any spacecraft that has entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
Lyrids are observed annually every spring. The source of these meteors is fragments of the long period comet 1861 G1 Thatcher. It is the oldest of the steady meteor showers – the first records date back to 687 BC.
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