Over the weekend, Earth passed through Lerida

Last weekend, Earth passed through a meteor shower Lerida associated with comet Thatcher. Sunday morning in the Northwest of calgary in Canada Harlan Thomas witnessed the emergence of a huge meteor. According to Thomas, the fireball lit up the sky at 3:18 am and the trail of smoke from it was visible the whole 90 seconds. He said that he was able to observe and other meteors, but they were few — about 10-15 per hour.

Other observers around the world reported about 10 meteors per hour is a normal number for this stream. In previous years, the meteor shower was more numerous in 1982, the hour, the number reached 90. In 2018, reports of such figures have not been reported, but, as noted by Thomas, and sometimes one meteor is enough.

The period of activity of the Lyrids from 16 to 25 April. Interestingly, the first mention of the stream recorded in the historical prose of Ancient China "Zuo Zhuan" and is dated to 687 BC

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