<\/p>\n “This fireball was most likely a member of the South Taurid meteor shower<\/a> which is active during October and November,” Robert Lunsford, Journal Editor at the AMS told Space.com in an email. “Fireballs are common from this shower, but they usually occur during the last week of October and the first week of November.”<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Earth<\/a> is currently passing through two distinct debris streams shed by the solar system<\/a> Comet<\/a> 2P\/Encke that give rise to the Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers<\/a>, which are known for producing a slight uptick in spectacular fireball events around this time of year.<\/p>\n Top camera pick: Nikon Z9<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Amazon)<\/p>\n Want to capture meteors in the night sky? An absolute monster for stills and video, the Nikon Z9<\/a> is a brilliant astrophotography camera. Find it on Amazon. <\/a><\/p>\n “Fragments from Comet Encke and all comets in general are very fragile and will disintegrate while still high in the atmosphere,” continued Lunsford. “So, there is no chance of any meteorites making it to the ground from this fireball if it was indeed a Taurid fireball.”<\/p>\n The Southern Taurid and Northern Taurid meteor showers are due to peak on the nights of Nov. 4-5 and Nov. 11-12, respectively, during which up to five meteors might be visible streaking across the sky each hour, under ideal dark sky conditions. Unfortunately, the Southern Taurid stream will crescendo under the light of a full moon<\/a>, which will obscure fainter shooting stars.<\/p>\n Astrophotographers interested in capturing a Taurid meteor should read our guide on how to photograph meteors and meteor showers<\/a>, along with our roundups of the best cameras<\/a> and lenses for imaging the night sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n Editor’s Note: If you capture an image of a fireball and want to share it with Space.com’s readers, then please send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@space.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fireball meteor flared to life above the southern U.S. on Oct. 14, briefly turning night to day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-227227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Front](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GpM5D6rHcXEMaHtFy2CySm.jpg\")
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