The month of November has been pretty busy with four concurrent meteor showers happening! The Leonids, The Northern and Southern Taurids, and The Monocerotids are all active around the same date.

It is possible it was within the same stream of the Canadian Fireball and that meteor is yet to be determined what shower it was associated with. Sometimes they are sporadic meteors which means they have no association to any shower.

Please read comment #3 within the post Massive Fireball Falls Toward Earth for the answer to your question, “and if there may have been anything that made it to the ground.” Most meteors even large ones burn up 30 to 60 miles up in the atmosphere.

If you have any other questions, I will be happy to answer them for you if can’t find the information here.

You can also use the “search” feature in the upper right hand corner to browse around the site.

Next month may be a doozy for meteor viewing, bookmark the site and check back with me.

Thanks for your comment and keep your head up.

- Meteor Mark

Thanks for your comment, hope someone saw it too and will post it here. Must have been cool to see it!

- Meteor Mark

Sounds awesome!

It was a fireball not a comet. Comets rarely enter our atmosphere. Look up the definition of “comet” and “fireball” in our meteorblog.com glossary located on the top of this page on the right.

Feel free to post anymore questions if you don’t find your answers there.

Meteor Mark

Driving home at around 8 pm tonight and just saw a huge meteor with trail — never seen anything so big and bright — across the eastern sky, perhaps lower than 45 degrees. Came on line to see what is up in the heavens. Clear night and I was driving, so I can’t say what constellations it might have been near … Husband whom I have to admit knows about astronomy says it could not have been a comet because it was too fast. What can you tell me?

Thanks,

Polly

Very special; luckily it was a dark and empty road so I could take in the beauty without wrecking!

Anything you can tell me would be appreciated.

Thanks

Thank you for your comments and don’t be sorry. I am glad you found the information on the site.

If the time was the same and your area was generally close to each other, then yes you may have seen the same meteor. Was the other post from Atlanta?

Bookmark the site and join us later in the month.

- Meteor Mark

Yes it could have been. If he could trace the path backward to the constellation Taurus (Did it Streak from the Pleidas, The Seven Sisters which is part of Taurus?) It sounds like from the description it was!

Look at this post, there is a star map of the Pleidas within it.

Keep your head up,

- Meteor Mark

Thanks for your comment, but this is a post about the Taurids Meteor Shower so you won’t be able to find information about the Leonids.

Look at this post about the Leonids Meteor Shower of 2008

There are a few maps to help locate Leo in that section. You should be looking East at around 3 to 4 AM on November 17/18 for the maximum ZHR of the Leonids. This year the moon will be a real issue for viewing as it lies directly above Leo during the showers peak.

- Meteor Mark

If it was very bright like you described then yes it was a fireball, most meteors are a as bright as the brightest star in the sky.

Consider yourself lucky, try remembering the path then trace that path backward to a constellation. It may have been a Taurids Fireball, which would seem to come from the Constellation Taurus. Let me know if you can remember.

Thanks for the post,

Meteor Mark