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Is spring really the "fireball season", as NASA calls it?

Never heard of this expression before, or that there was any increase in fireballs (very bright meteors) in spring. Here's NASA link: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a0112...

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    The occurrence of meteor showers at certain times of the year are a result of earth intersecting the orbital paths of periodic comets. By random chance there may be just a little more of these intersections during spring than any other time of the year. And in this case it may also involve sometimes slightly larger meteors, such as small pebble sized instead of sand-grain sized.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • 8 years ago

    interesting. I had not heard of this.

    the "obvious" suggestion would be that at this time of the year the earth is moving forward, adding to the sun''s velocity as it orbits the galaxy, thereby inrtercepting more non-orbiting matter than at other times of the year when our velocity is subtracted from the Sun's.

    that the link says that the cause is unknown suggests that the truth is a whole lot more complicated than this simple suggestion.

  • 8 years ago

    Yes it's definitely true how ever this doesn't mean that there is a bigger threat because these do called fireballs break up into tiny bits when they enter the earths atmosphere so please don't worry about this

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    were all gonna die

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