Really? I've seen three. Two burned out in flares as they neared the horizon and one passed almost directly overhead.
No wonder I’ve never seen one, you’re bogarting them!
Really? I've seen three. Two burned out in flares as they neared the horizon and one passed almost directly overhead.
Clearly you are living on borrowed time...
You must spent more than an average amount of time outdoors at night, or else you’re just lucky or exceptionally observant.
They are uncommon but not particularly rare. About one trillion meteors large enough to cause ionization trails enter the earth’s atmosphere every day. They are modeled as being exponentially distributed, with the relative number of objects being inversely proportional to a constant raised to size. (Select your units carefully). In other words there are about a million times as many 1 gram meteors as 10 gram and trillion times as many 1 gram as 100 gram objects, for instance. (I don’t have the proportions in front of me.)
The ones that scare me are the 10,000,000+ gram objects.