The Lyrids have been observed for the past 2, 600 years.
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This has been interpreted as a sighting of the Lyrids, a meteor shower.
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The Lyrids meteor shower appears on April 16-April 26 each year, with the peak generally occurring on April 22.
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Sure, the year is plumb full of meteors-- from early January's Quadrantids shower and April's Lyrids to November's stunning Leonid show and December's Geminids.
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The April Lyrids are the strongest annual shower of meteors from debris of a long-period comet, mainly because as far as other intermediate long-period comets go ( 200 10, 000 years ), this one has a relatively short orbital period of about 415 years.
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Another such outburst, and the oldest known, the shower on March 23.7, 687 BC ( proleptic Julian calendar ) was recorded in " Zuo Zhuan ", which describes the shower as " On the 4th month in the summer in the year of Boorong tribe, the Lyrids represent the scratchings of the Mallee fowl ( represented by Vega ), coinciding with its nest-building season.
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