Lyrids
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Oct 15, 2026
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Las Cuadrántidas llegan a principios de enero y ofrecen un periodo de observación breve pero intenso cuando la Tierra atraviesa escombros que se cree que proceden de un asteroide que posiblemente fue un cometa en el pasado.
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Las Líridas aparecen cada abril, creando una lluvia moderada que ha sido observada durante más de dos mil años.
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Las Eta Acuáridas llegan en mayo, creadas por escombros del cometa Halley.
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Las Gemínidas ocurren en diciembre y se encuentran entre las lluvias de meteoros más abundantes del año, produciendo hasta setenta y cinco meteoros por hora durante su máxima actividad.
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The Quadrantids arrive in early January, offering brief but intense viewing when Earth passes through debris believed to come from an asteroid that may have once been a comet.
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The Lyrids appear each April, creating a moderate shower that has been observed for over 2,000 years.
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The Eta Aquarids arrive in May, created by debris from Halley's Comet.
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The Geminides occur in December and are among the most abundant meteors of the year, producing up to 75 meteors per hour at peak activity.
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Yet the headline circulated widely on social media, prompting speculation that some sort of intentional interference had occurred.
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Astronauts aboard the ISS regularly observe meteor showers like the Lyrids or Perseids through their cameras and panoramic windows.
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When a fireball crosses the station's orbital path, its trajectory can be measured by timing its appearance in successive images, allowing scientists to calculate velocity and angle of entry.
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Data that can confirm whether the object was an Earth-bound meteorite or an orbital debris fragment.
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Schiaparelli having independently attained both of these results.
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Subsequently, Weiss of Vienna identified the meteor shower of April 20th, Lyrids, with the Comet 1861.
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Finally, that indefatigable worker on meteors, A.S. Herschel, added to the number and in 1878 gave a list of 76 coincidences between cometary and meteoric orbits.
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Cometary astronomy is now largely indebted to photography, not merely for accurate delineations of shape, but actually for the discovery of most of them.