The Lyrids are an annual display of fairly fast meteors that may be seen any night from April 16 to 25.
Such speculation dates back to the 1960's thanks to the similarity between the calculated orbits of a shadow-casting fireball that passed over northern New Jersey on April 23, 1962 and a bolide which dropped meteorites over England, Wales and Northern Ireland on April 25, 1969.
The noted meteor astronomer Charles P. Olivier utilized 80 observations to compute an orbit for the 1962 fireball, while British workers used a computer at the University of Liverpool to analyze over 300 sightings of the 1969 bolide. The result showed that both objects have remarkably similar orbits. Their radiant appears to be very near to the constellation of
, the Crow, a little four-sided figure of fairly bright stars, like a triangle whose top has been removed by a slanting cut. You can readily identify it this week by facing due south around 11 p.m. local daylight time. When and where to scan the sky Using the observations of the 1962 and 1969 fireballs, I've determined that a"window of opportunity" for possibly making another fireball sighting would come between 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on April 23 through 7 p.m. EDT on April 25. So across North America, the nights of Sunday, April 23 and Monday, April 24 offer the most promise.
If you're hoping to catch a look at the Lyra constellation or the Lyrid meteor shower, our guides to the
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