APOD
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Green Fireball
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 Berenices . Dunn comments that he considers himself a green novice observer, but is now anticipating next November's appearance of the Leonids shower .
| Date | November 20, 1998 |
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| Credit | Credit and Copyright: Steve Dunn |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |