APOD: 2026 November 8 – Major Fireball Meteor
Sightings of this major fireball meteor were widely reported in European skies, making it one of the most reported fireball events ever for planet Earth’s American Meteor Society and the International Meteor Organization.
Key points
- The meteor’s measured track over Germany is consistent with its origin near the active radiant of November’s Northern Taurid Meteor Shower, a shower associated with dust from Encke’s comet.
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- But most stunning is the intense fireball meteor.
Major Fireball Meteor Explanation: The sky glows with soft pinkish colors of fading twilight in this serendipitous mountaintop vista.
Additional details
- It was captured during the camera’s exposure by chance as it flashed east to west across the northern horizon, under Ursa Major’s familiar Big Dipper asterism.
- Taken in subfreezing temperatures, the thoughtfully composed photo shows snowy, rugged peaks seen from a mountain pass on 2017 November 14.
- Above the nestled village lights, the constellation Ursa Major hangs over the northern horizon.
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- Boasting permanently shadowed crater floors that likely contain deposits of water ice and peaks that receive almost continuous sunlight for solar power generation, the south polar region is consider a prime location for the first human settlement on the Moon.
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