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Acording to the word from Never A straight Answer NASA...the spring is the time to be seeing beatiful fireballs in the night skies....read on.....
A fireball is a meteor brighter than the planet Venus. Earth is bombarded by them as our planet plows through the jetsam and flotsam of space--i.e., fragments of broken asteroids and decaying comets that litter the inner solar system.
In spring, fireballs are more abundant. Their nightly rate mysteriously climbs 10% to 30%.
"We've known about this phenomenon for more than 30 years," says Cooke. "It's not only fireballs that are affected. Meteorite falls--space rocks that actually hit the ground--are more common in spring as well"
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
reply to post by tomten
The only time I ever saw a fireball was in the fall...