trails that last minutes.

Lyrids shoot at about .

Occasionally, the shower intensifies when the planets steer the one-revolution dust trail of the comet into Earth's path, an event that happens about once every 60 years. This results in an April Lyrid meteor outburst. The one-revolution dust trail is dust that has completed one orbit: the stream of dust released in the return of the comet prior to the current 1861 return. This mechanism replaces earlier ideas that the outbursts were due to a cloud of dust moving in a 60-year

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