Just a coincidence?
Nearly 200 report fireball streaking across Northeast sky
News12 ^ | 10/20/2017
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3597104/posts
Would not surprise me if it was part of the main mass.
Along a particular orbit, there is debris strewn all across the path as chunks break off and get left behind.
These eventually become meteors.....................