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A Taurid Meteor Fireball
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[z]Barbara Harris
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16.11.2005 00:00
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A Taurid Meteor Fireball
Explanation:
Have you ever seen a very bright meteor?
Unexpected, this year's
Taurid meteor shower
resulted in
numerous reports
of very
bright fireball
s during the nights surrounding
Halloween
.
Pictured
above
, a fireball that momentarily rivaled the brightness of the
full Moon was caught over
Cerro Pachon
,
Chile
by a
continuous sky monitor
on November 1.
Several
bright Taurid fireballs
are identifiable on the
sky movie
for that night.
The above image is a digitally rectangled version of a circular
fisheye frame
and shows the entire sky, horizon to horizon.
The bright meteor was seen swooping between the directions of the
Large
and
Small Magellanic Clouds
.
The
band
of the
Milky Way Galaxy
crosses the horizon behind the dome of the 8-meter
Gemini South
Telescope.
Taurid meteor fireballs are
likely pebble sized
debris left by
Comet Encke
.
Over the next week the
Leonids meteor shower
will peak, although they will need to be seen through the glare of a nearly full Moon.
[Disclosure: Robert Nemiroff collaborates on both the
Astronomy Picture of the Day and the Night Sky Live projects.]
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