(meteorobs) Various fireball reports

[Malcolm J. Currie]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, stange wrote:
> It seems that in the last 6 months there has been more & more large bright
> fireballs in the early evening hours. Many seem to occur when the sky is
> still too bright from the setting Sun for good camera detection.

That's the time of day with the highest frequency of non-shower fireballs.
Also in the Northern Hemisphere there are three times more near the 
Autumnal Equinox as the Spring Equinox.

See http://www.imo.net/fireball/rates and references therein.

Malcolm Currie