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Credit & Copyright: Steve Dunn
Explanation:
"Goodness, Gracious, Green Balls Of Fire!", might have been an
appropriate theme song title for
the 1998 Leonid meteor shower.
Many observers, like astrophotographer Steve Dunn watching from
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, reported that
a lot of the characteristically bright Leonid meteors had
a greenish tint.
Around 6:00 AM EST on November 17, he photographed this
dazzling Leonid fireball leaving a striking
green-to-white trail against a
background of stars in
the constellation Coma Bernices.
Dunn comments that he considers himself a green novice observer,
but is now anticipating next
November's appearance of
the Leonids shower.
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Leonids - fireball - meteor shower
Publications with words: Leonids - fireball - meteor shower
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- APOD: 2025 July 23 B Fireball over Cape San Blas
- APOD: 2024 December 10 B The Great Meteor Storm of 1833
- Xuyi Station and the Fireball
- Quadrantids of the North
- APOD: 2023 December 17 B Geminids over Chinas Nianhu Lake