Spring Mystery Of Lonely Meteors - Alternative View

Spring Mystery Of Lonely Meteors - Alternative View
Spring Mystery Of Lonely Meteors - Alternative View

Video: Spring Mystery Of Lonely Meteors - Alternative View

Video: Spring Mystery Of Lonely Meteors - Alternative View
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The inner region of the solar system is literally littered with dusty rocky debris from decaying comets and destroyed asteroids. Every night, the Earth passes through tons of such debris. If you observe all night long, provided the weather is clear, you will be able to see a dozen fireballs crossing the firmament - they are called sporadic meteors.

On April 8, photographer Monica Landi-Gebnar captured a fireball in the sky over the city of Veszprem in Hungary. As she said, at first she took pictures of the sunset, then waited for the ISS to appear, and a little later, Progress MS-07 flew overhead. A meteor lit up the sky right in between the two spacecraft. The picture also shows a beautiful flower in the foreground - this is the anemone (Pulsatilla nigricans), which, as Landy-Gebnard originally planned, was supposed to decorate the frame from the ISS. She also noted that the meteor had a magnitude of −10 (more than 100 times brighter than Venus).

Sporadic meteors appear 10-30% more often during spring than other seasons - and no one knows why. According to Bill Cook of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Directorate, this phenomenon has been known for over 30 years. It's not just about meteors - in spring, meteorite falls (meteoroids that flew to the surface of the planet) also occur more often. Perhaps there is a whole cluster of meteoroids scattered along the April-May arc of the Earth's orbit. If so, then its origin is unknown.