Tonight | Harp meteors peak

2021-04-21 2021-04-21T14:25:11Z
رنا السيلاوي
رنا السيلاوي
محرر أخبار - قسم التواصل الاجتماعي

Arab Weather - We are on the date tonight (dawn on Thursday, April 22) with the peak of the harp meteor showers, which will be apparent anywhere in the world, noting that the bright moonlight and city lights will impede the vision of meteors, so if you live far from light pollution you may notice Some meteors in the clear sky, especially after the moon sets, that is, an hour or two before dawn.

 

Guitar meteor showers

Lyrids meteor showers extend every year between 16-25 April, but this year they reach their peak at dawn on Thursday (21-22 April 2021), and the average meteor rate during this event is about 15 meteors per hour.

 

Space debris that burns in the Earth's atmosphere comes to form meteor showers from the comet (C / 1861 G1 Thatcher), as the Earth passes in its orbit with the comet path, which left behind some of the remnants that enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn in it and appear in the form of meteors.

 

Harp meteors have a distinctly glowing tail that can be seen for several seconds, and propagate through our atmosphere at an average speed of 48 kilometers per second, but they may not provide a rich display compared to the Geminids meteor showers in December or Perseids in August.

 

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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