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"Your Guide to Viewing the Lyrid Meteor Shower This Weekend"

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"Your Guide to Viewing the Lyrid Meteor Shower This Weekend"
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The Lyrid meteor shower is set to peak on the night of April 21-22, with an average of 10-15 meteors per hour and a potential for up to 100. Best viewing will be in the pre-dawn hours after midnight when the shower's radiant rises in the east. The Lyrids are debris from Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher and are one of the oldest-known meteor showers, with the first recorded sighting dating back to 687 B.C. in China.

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