[appalachian_dweller]

Thanks for the report RR. That makes 6. If we include New Zealand, it's 7.

I'm still going to plot these on a map to see if I can see any kind of pattern. This may all be nothing more than a natural occurrence. That's is opinion of my astronomer coworker friend.

[rickylc]

And another that made the news in washington state a week or so ago.


Though it's true there are several meteor showers going on now, the same could be said for any month of the year. there are meteor showers all the time.

But, this is what is alarming about these reports. There are very very very rarely firsthand reports of low level meteors, low enough to go boom anyway.

Think about it, 20%, or there abouts of our regular posters have seen or heard one of these in the last 4 days. If this were even close to normal, everyone of us would have experienced several of these over our lifetime. It would be a common everyday occurance, meteors would be smashing into houses weekly.

This does not happen. Until now, I've never known anyone that has heard a meteor go boom, now in less than a week, I know 5 people that have. This is not common, not even close to being common.

Meteor showers are common, meteors that go boom are extraordinarily uncommon. These can not be dismissed just because there are a couple of meteor showers this month.