With a bit of luck and patience, streaks and fireballs from the weak annual meteor shower will be visible whenever its radiant in the constellation Norma is above the horizon.
As our planet passes through the stream of fragments that give rise to the Gamma Normids, these fragments enterat around 125,000 miles per hour , or about 85 times as fast as a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jet.
The debris usually burns up at an altitude of around 44 miles to 62 miles above the Earth creating bright streaks of light, with larger pieces giving rise to the occasional bright fireball. Meteor showers like the Gamma Normids peak when Earth reaches a particularly dense patch of fragments where comets or asteroids have blasted off large amounts of material as a result of heating by the sun. Lyrid meteor shower
when it begins in just over a month on April 22. The Lyrids have an hourly rate slightly higher than the Gamma Normids at around 18 meteors per hour.
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