According to the Nepal Astronomical Society, a meteor shower can be seen in the Nepali sky on the night of April 22.
Chairman of the society Suresh Bhattarai informed that Veena Meteor Shower (Lyrid Meteor Shower) will be active from today till April 22. He said that the meteor shower can be observed from 9 pm to sunrise on the night of April 22.
15-20 meteors will be seen falling per hour during high activity. The meteor shower will be seen when dust particles are released by a comet named Thatcher are destroyed by friction in the Earth's atmosphere. It takes 415 years for the comet to orbit the Sun.
As a comet orbits the sun, it releases dust particles into its orbit which can spread to millions of kilometers. The dust particles scattered in this way also orbit the sun. Meteors appear when these dust particles hit the Earth's atmosphere during their orbit. If 10 or more meteors are seen in such a scene, such an event is called a meteor shower.
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