PJ-PR-meteoroid-stream-of-long-period-comet-Thatcher-web (IMAGE)
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The meteoroid stream of long-period comet Thatcher (white line). Each meteoroid moved on its own orbit and created a Lyrid shower meteor when it hit Earth after approaching the orbit of Earth (blue line) from the north.
The orange line is the orbit of Jupiter. Image from video-based meteor observations at Earth, displayed at https://meteorshowers.org.
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