http://news.discovery.com/space/february-fireballs-nasa-120224.html
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Oddball Fireballs
So far in February, NASA's All-Sky Fireball Network -- which currently consists of six cameras set up in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and New Mexico -- has photographed about half a dozen of these strange slow-moving, deep-diving fireballs. They have ranged in size from basketballs to buses.
Cooke has analyzed their orbits and determined where the strange meteors are coming from.
"They all hail from the asteroid belt, but not from a single location in the asteroid belt," he said. "There is no common source for these fireballs, which is puzzling."
The "fireballs of February" have puzzled astronomers for decades. Skywatchers first noticed an increase in the number of deep-penetrating, bright meteors during February back in the 1960s and '70s, Brown said.
I found it interesting that they can't figure out what the source of these is, and they are all of a sudden coming in large numbers...
Perhaps its starting, and we will get more as 2012 goes on, until the big ones get here and penetrate deep into our atmosphere.
Maybe the Oort cloud really was perturbed, and they will reach us later this year, getting pummeled.
Any ideas?
This post was edited by Torm1 on Feb 25 2012 12:18am