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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14035872 United States 04/10/2012 07:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Amazed to discover in my 60th year of life there is such as thing as "Spring Fireball Season". Who the heck penned that canard? Spring fireball season. Looks like they first appeared last year and are very much a mystery. Meteors have always been an autumn joy - especially november. Nothing grates like .gov pinheads playing perception management games with our heads. Nothing. Like to NASA "mystery" report from last year. [link to science.nasa.gov] snip "Autumn is the season for sporadic meteors," says Cooke. "So why are the sporadic fireballs peaking in spring? That is the mystery." Meteoroid expert Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario notes that "some researchers think there might be an intrinsic variation in the meteoroid population along Earth's orbit, with a peak in big fireball-producing debris around spring and early summer. We probably won't know the answer until we learn more about their orbits2." To solve this and other puzzles, Cooke is setting up a network of smart meteor cameras around the country to photograph fireballs and triangulate their orbits. As explained in the Science@NASA story What's Hitting Earth?, he's looking for places to put his cameras; educators are encouraged to get involved. Networked observations of spring fireballs could ultimately reveal their origin. "It might take a few years to collect enough data," he cautions. Until then, it's a beautiful mystery. Go out and enjoy the night sky. It is spring, after all. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14227759 Australia 04/12/2012 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | no, its just a small part of the sun, (they got that bit right!) releasing shitloads of protons that excite the air around and cause the immediate air to ignite, basicly a form of plasma. So basicly a coronal mass ejection, in very small amount. We have been observing lots of solar flares lately. And then theres these things. 1+1=2 (Im not totally up with the science of the fireball, but science it is.My mate was telling me all about it, and it just made so much sense, plasma, protons, causing glowing fireball etc anywhooo its all science) Of course, "spring fireball season" aint science, not by a long shot. And it aint no mystery. |