Virginids

The Virginids are a meteor shower. There are many major and minor meteor shower streams that occur during the Virginid Complex,^[1] including the Alpha Virginids, Gamma Virginids,^[2][3][4][5] Eta Virginids, Theta Virginids, Iota Virginids,^[6] Lambda Virginids,^[7] Mu Virginids,^[8] Pi Virginids, and Psi Virginids,^[9] and March Virginids,^[10][11] emanating mostly from the constellation Virgo between February and May.^[1] Collectively, the shower normally lasts from late January to mid-April^[12] and into early May,^[1] peaking in March and April,^[1][12] with one to two meteors per hour on average.^[12] The main radiant shifts southeastwards from central Leo in late January to central Virgo near Spica in mid-May.^[13]