This Bright Leonid Fireball Is Shown During The Storm Of 1966 In The Sky Above Wrightwood, Calif. (Getty Images)
It’s officially spring, and you know what that means. Flowers. Baseball. Fireballs.
You heard me.
Fireballs.
NASA says to look up during the coming weeks, as your chances of seeing meteors is greatly increased. Scientists aren’t exactly sure why, but fireballs are far more common near the vernal equinox.
(For the record, a fireball is meteor that burns brighter than the planet Venus.)
Researchers say the more they delve into why fireballs are more common during spring, the stranger the phenomenon becomes — especially since the Earth’s apex suggests autumn would be prime time for meteors.
“Autumn is the season for sporadic meteors,” said NASA’s Bill Cooke in a prepared statement. “So why are the sporadic fireballs peaking in spring? That is the mystery.”
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