The Arietids are a strong meteor shower that lasts from May 22 to July 2 each year, and peaks on June 7.

The Arietids, along with the Zeta Perseids, are the most intense daylight meteor showers of the year.

[3] The source of the shower is unknown, but scientists suspect that they come from the asteroid 1566 Icarus,[3][4] although the orbit also corresponds similarly to 96P/Machholz.

[5] First discovered at Jodrell Bank Observatory in England during the summer of 1947, the showers are caused when the Earth passes through a dense portion of two interplanetary meteoroid streams, producing an average of 60 shooting stars each hour, that originate in the sky from the constellation Aries and the constellation Perseus.

[6] The meteors strike Earth's atmosphere at speeds around 39 km/s.