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Kirata -> Time to get out your bucket list? (10/25/2015 6:29:33 AM)
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I've been noticing what seems to be an unusual and growing number of meteor fireball reports in various non-mainline news sources, and I wondered if that was just due to better reporting or if it was an actual increase. Turns out to be the latter:
Data collected by the American Meteor Society indicates that the number of confirmed meteor fireballs in our atmosphere has increased by 700% over the period 2005-2013. More than 2,000 confirmed meteors were observed over the USA in 2012; nearly 3,500 were observed in 2013. That amounts to a 64% increase from one year to the next. ~Source
[image]http://www.amsmeteors.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/reports-per-year1-700x460.png[/image]
Sightings per year through 2012
Our planetary system traces a sinusoidal path that takes it above and below the galactic plane. Now, recent research has linked these passages through the plane of the galaxy with periods of increased bombardment.
Disc dark matter in the Galaxy and potential cycles of extraterrestrial impacts, mass extinctions and geological events ~RAS full text
Just in case you don't have enough other things to worry about.
K.
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