Apod 4.5

This weeks picture is of a meteor shooting through the summer sky over crater lake, the deepest lake in America. A meteor is a small rock or pebble that has started entering our atmosphere but is quickly burnt to dust  due to the extreme heat caused by friction. This particular meteor was part of the Lyrids Meteor shower that occurs in late April. on the peak dates of April 22-23, can yield around 20-30 meteors per hour, allowing most who wish to see meteor get the chance to revel in its glory, if only for that brief second.

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