Event: 20221011-013827

Numerous eyewitnesses in the states of Florida and Georgia reported the sighting of a fireball Monday night at 9:38 Eastern Daylight Time (2022 October 11 1:38 UTC). The meteor was also detected in two NASA all sky meteor cameras located at Kennedy Space Center and the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona; analysis of the video data indicates that object – a 2 inch fragment of Comet Encke weighing about half a pound – began to ablate 57 miles above the Florida town of Bunnell, near the Atlantic coast. It moved just a bit north of west at 61,000 miles per hour, finally disintegrating 23 miles above southeastern Gainesville. The fireball was a member of the currently active South Taurid meteor shower, which peaks around this date. The Taurids have very low hourly rates but are noted for bright meteors.

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