                APOD: 2017 November 17 - Major Fireball Meteor

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                               2017 November 17
                                      [2]
                            Major Fireball Meteor
                Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Ollie Taylor [4]

Explanation: The sky glows [5] with soft pinkish colors of fading twilight in
this serendipitous mountaintop vista. Taken in subfreezing temperatures, the
thoughtfully composed photo shows snowy, rugged peaks seen from a mountain
pass on November 14. Below lies [6] the village of La Villa, Alta Badia in
Italy's Dolomite Alps. Above the nestled village lights, the constellation
Ursa Major hangs over the northern horizon. But most stunning is the intense
fireball meteor. It was captured during the camera's exposure by chance as it
flashed east to west across the northern horizon, under Ursa Major's familiar
Big Dipper asterism. In fact, sightings [7] of this major fireball meteor were
widely reported in European skies, the most reported fireball [8]  event ever
for planet Earth's American Meteor Society [9]  and the International Meteor
Organization [10] . The meteor's measured track over Germany is consistent
with its origin near the active radiant of November's Taurid Meteor Shower
[11] . Taurid meteors are associated with dust from Encke's comet [12] .

                       Watch: Leonid Meteor Shower [13]
                    Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend [14]

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