Meteor lapland
Rigtigt, det er en meteor øverst til højre, ikke solen, og midt om natten.
Om aftenen den 16. november var nordlys turguide,Tony Bateman, inden døre i det nordlige Finland og fik varmen mellem nordlys hændelserne, da hans omgivelser begyndte at vibrere. "der var et enormt brag og hytten rystede kraftigt," rapporterede han. "Først tænkte jeg, det var et jordskælv. Eller måske et træ var faldet ned på hyttens tag! Jeg gik udenfor og inspicerede træerne. Alt var okay." En hurtig gennemspilning af nordlyskameraet løste mysteriet. "Det var en utrolig meteor," sagde han.".



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"It gave me goosebumps to see the night sky turn blue as the meteor exploded," he says. "Auroras and a fireball--what a night!"

This week Earth has been moving through a stream of debris from Comet Encke, source of the annual Taurid meteor shower. Taurids are rich in fireballs. However, the trajectory of this meteor suggests it was no Taurid.

It appears to have been a sporadic--that is, a random meteor from no particular comet. Every day, Earth is peppered with sporadic meteors from a diffuse swarm filling the inner solar system. NASA statistics show that sporadic fireballs as bright as Venus appear somewhere on Earth more than 100 times daily. Fireballs as bright as a quarter Moon occur once every ten days, and fireballs as bright as a full Moon once every few months or so. The Arctic fireball of Nov. 16th belongs in the rarest of those three categories--a lucky catch, indeed.