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Lyrid Meteor Shower Arrives This Weekend

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sky-is-falling dept.

mdsolar writes "If you want to take a chance on the Lyrid Meteor Shower you should be looking this weekend. This shower is usually a quiet one but can result is spectacular displays from time to time. Earth & Sky gives viewing times as the very early hours of Sunday and Monday morning. The moon will have set by then."

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  1. if you ask me, it started last night (4-19-07) by hAckz0r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I got up this morning and had a meteorite in my front yard. Landed about 40 feet from both my house and my car. It was about 3.5" in diameter and VERY heavy for its size. Metallic with iron oxide in the concave indentations but non-magnetic. It would do some serious damage if it hit something straight on, but this one must have skipped across the field next to us and just happened to stop where it was laying in my grass. I never heard a thing.