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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5338. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Meteors

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The appearance in the sky, at a particular time of the year, of higher-than-average numbers of meteors, all appearing to emanate from a specific point on the celestial sphere known as the radiant. Most showers are named after the constellation in which the radiant lies, by adding the suffix `-id': the Lyrid shower, or Lyrids, for example, have their radiant in the constellation Lyra. The Quandran...

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