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Sightings of meteors surge, and scientists aren’t sure why
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Footage from a fisheye security camera showing a meteor trail visible in the sky above a street in Elyria, Ohio, the US, on March 17.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Robin George Andrews
It seems as though stars have been shooting across the heavens far more than usual lately.
In March, fireball after fireball coursed through the skies of North America and Europe. Some of the dazzling apparitions dropped meteorites in their wake. In Ohio, space shards set down in fields and forests. Other rocky visitors smashed through the roofs of people’s homes and ricocheted around their bedrooms.
