(meteorobs) Cloudbait. A difficult question to ask.

[stange34 at sbcglobal.net]

Chris,

In your opinion, does there seem to be many more large Fireballs around the 
approximate times, or between times of  meteor shower activity, than when no 
showers have been acive for awhile?

I am referring to Fireballs that do not seem to have any relationship to a 
radiant because of their apparent direction of travel.

What I am leading up to is, as earth approaches a meteor stream in its 
orbit, most meteors have motion which can be traced back to a radiant. 
But......

1) If "some" rocks near the plane of the stream were moving very slow when 
earth approaches, and......

2) If "some" other rocks IN the plane of the stream that were moving very 
slow, were to be lightly struck by slightly faster rocks enough to give it a 
mild new direction as earth approaches.......

Could not earths orbital speed around the Sun of 67,000 MPH, Plus & minus 
earths rotational speed of 1,000 MPH, be enough when earths atmosphere 
encounters these slow rocks to cause ablation by itself without requiring 
these rocks to have any high velocity?

Lastly then, could not many if not most of the so-called random appearing 
directions of SPO's (& Fireballs),  really be slow or lightly diverted rocks 
outside & within the stream and not random at all except in APPARENT 
direction caused by earths rotation and velocity alone?

Big Fireballs seem to be scarce when it is long after a major shower.

Had a hard time trying to word this clearly.
Larry
YCS