Around 2000, Earth began steadily moving deeper into a 400 year stretch of its orbit that is thick with dense clouds of comet debris (containing many large civilization-ending chunks).
Noting that during the ramp up of the deadly and destructive Gothenburg geomagnetic minima / excursion / polarity reversal event (half the human population died off), Earth was pounded by a colossal comet fragment storm from Alaska to New Guinea with a very wide strewnfied (that ignited 10-15% of the planet's surface).
Interesting! I had meant to look into if there were actually more fireballs this year, because I had thought it might just be media attention being more. I see at least a couple fireballs fizzing across the sky every year--not big enough to actually explode or anything exciting like that, but big enough to come in low and be audible before they disappear. But I'm always looking up, whereas I don't know if other people really even pay attention to the sky at all. Nothing beats the time when I was driving home one night through the dark forest and one just tore across the sky right down the path of the road I was taking. It was amazing--kind of glad there was no one else on the road because I was so enthralled I wasn't paying attention!
One thing I'm not clear on is why the spring anthelion point (I think?) causes more fireballs? What makes them cluster there in particular?
Interestingly it seems NASA and/or meteor experts are actually saying this year's fireball increase is notable and can't be put down to coincidence or 'more recording devices and cameras' alone, there is a definite surge compared to previous years. I do think that growing population and spreading urban areas have an effect re: a higher number of people who could see them, and there are now doorbell cameras that spot them when you're sleeping. Fireballs over the ocean may go unnoticed, but fireballs over land with more development and people living on it than in the past will get noticed.
Around 2000, Earth began steadily moving deeper into a 400 year stretch of its orbit that is thick with dense clouds of comet debris (containing many large civilization-ending chunks).
Noting that during the ramp up of the deadly and destructive Gothenburg geomagnetic minima / excursion / polarity reversal event (half the human population died off), Earth was pounded by a colossal comet fragment storm from Alaska to New Guinea with a very wide strewnfied (that ignited 10-15% of the planet's surface).
Interesting! I had meant to look into if there were actually more fireballs this year, because I had thought it might just be media attention being more. I see at least a couple fireballs fizzing across the sky every year--not big enough to actually explode or anything exciting like that, but big enough to come in low and be audible before they disappear. But I'm always looking up, whereas I don't know if other people really even pay attention to the sky at all. Nothing beats the time when I was driving home one night through the dark forest and one just tore across the sky right down the path of the road I was taking. It was amazing--kind of glad there was no one else on the road because I was so enthralled I wasn't paying attention!
One thing I'm not clear on is why the spring anthelion point (I think?) causes more fireballs? What makes them cluster there in particular?
Interestingly it seems NASA and/or meteor experts are actually saying this year's fireball increase is notable and can't be put down to coincidence or 'more recording devices and cameras' alone, there is a definite surge compared to previous years. I do think that growing population and spreading urban areas have an effect re: a higher number of people who could see them, and there are now doorbell cameras that spot them when you're sleeping. Fireballs over the ocean may go unnoticed, but fireballs over land with more development and people living on it than in the past will get noticed.