{"id":10046,"date":"2023-04-24T01:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T19:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10046"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:02:09","slug":"lyrid-meteor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lyrid-meteor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyrid Meteor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Lyrid meteor:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>According to NASA the first recorded sighting of a Lyrid meteor shower goes back to 687 BC by the Chinese.<\/li>\n<li>It is best viewed in the <strong>Northern Hemisphere<\/strong> during the dark hours.<\/li>\n<li>Meteor showers are usually <strong>named after a star or constellation<\/strong> that is close to where the meteors appear to originate in the sky.<\/li>\n<li>The Lyrid shower gets its name from the <strong>constellation Lyra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The last Lyrid outburst was in 1982 when 75 meteors per hour were recorded by observers in Florida.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Meteoroid, Meteor and Meteorite?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>object in space<\/strong> that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids.<\/li>\n<li>When meteoroids enter Earth\u2019s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, <strong>the fireballs or \u201cshooting stars\u201d are called meteors.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When a <strong>meteoroid survives<\/strong> a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it\u2019s called a <strong>meteorite.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the significance of Meteors?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It helps in understanding <strong>early conditions and processes in the solar system\u2019s history.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These include the <strong>age and composition<\/strong> of different <strong>planetary building blocks<\/strong>, the temperatures achieved at the surfaces and interiors of asteroids, and the degree to which materials were shocked by impacts in the past.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is constellation?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A constellation is a group of stars that are perceived to form a recognizable pattern or shape when viewed from Earth. Each constellation is defined by a specific set of stars, and their positions relative to each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/lyrid-meteor-shower-peaks-this-weekend-how-to-watch-the-falling-stars-all-about-lyrid-meteor-shower-latest-101682230479664.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Lyrid meteor shower peaks this weekend: How to watch the \u2018falling stars\u2019?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrid meteor  best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere during the dark hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":86430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86431,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions\/86431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}