Spring lonely mystery of meteors

The inner Solar system is literally littered with dusty, rocky debris from disintegrating comets and asteroids destroyed. Every night the Earth passes through the tons of such debris. If you observe all night, then provided that the weather is clear, you can see a dozen fireballs crossing the sky — they are called sporadic meteors.

8 APR photographer Monica Lundy-Hebner managed to capture a fireball in the sky over the city of Veszprem in Hungary. As she spoke, first she took pictures of the sunset, then waited for the ISS, and later head over to flying "Progress MS-07". The meteor lit up the sky right in between these two spacecraft. In the picture you can also see the beautiful flower in the foreground is the anemone (Pulsatilla nigricans), which, as originally planned Lundy-Hebner, was to decorate a frame with the ISS. She also noted that the magnitude of the meteor was -10 (more than 100 times brighter than Venus).

Sporadic meteors appear at 10-30 % more often during spring compared to other seasons — and nobody knows why. According to bill cook of Management meteorologo environment NASA about this phenomenon has been known for over 30 years. It's not only about the meteors — in the spring it happens the fall of meteorites (meteoroids that reach the surface of the planet). There may be a whole cluster of meteoroids scattered throughout April and may the arc of Earth's orbit. If so, its origin is unknown.

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