It has been concluded that the recent fireball that was observed over Texas was not a piece of the recent collision of two satellites orbiting Earth. A rare occurrence, however the object was simply a natural meteor, also known as a fireball. Most meteors tend to be made of non-metallic minerals that break apart easily [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Fireball – Not Part of a Meteor Shower
It is not a meteor shower? There is little major meteor shower activity until April, but recently over daytime skies in Texas (from Austin, to Houston and as far north as Plano) a fireball was seen plummeting toward Earth. It has yet to be determined if it was debris from a recent satellite collision between [...]
Meteor Shower Facts – Sporadic Meteors
What is a sporadic meteor? Sporadic meteors come from fragments and particles of solar system dust that travel around our Sun. Sporadic meteors are not associated with a meteor shower, their rendezvous with Earth are capricious and truly random or sporadic; therefore giving them their name “sporadic meteors”. On any given night a viewer may [...]
α-Centaurids Peaks February 7th
The α-Centaurids Meteor Shower peaks today. This is a minor meteor shower only to produce about five visible meteors per hour and a waxing gibbous moon will shed a lot of light so only the brightest meteors will be seen. Occasionally any meteor shower can produce fireballs. It is quite common for people to think [...]
