Never mind that Halloween is over. 'Halloween fireballs' can still be seen in the night sky in the next few weeks thanks to the Taurid meteor shower.
Never mind that Halloween is over because"Halloween fireballs," as NASA calls them, can still be seen blazing bright in the night sky over the next few weeks, thanks to the Southern Taurids meteor shower.
People are also reading… "With the normal rate for fireballs, someone would have to sit outside for 20 hours straight to see one," said Robert Lunsford, fireball report coordinator for the American Meteor Society."With the Taurids, can be reduced quite a bit, maybe down to five hours. And if you're really lucky, you could just step outside and within a few minutes see one. When they appear is totally unpredictable.
"It would be like a shooting star," said Mike Hankey, the American Meteor Society's operations manager and creator of its fireball tracking program."But instead of lasting a half of a second, it might last for three or four seconds, and instead of just being as bright as a star, it might be as bright as the moon — sometimes even brighter."
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